Craig Mayhew’s Blog

Folding@home announced Thursday (18th December 2008) that they are “very excited that it looks like we may have multiple small molecules which appear to inhibit toxicity of Abeta, the protein which is the toxic element in Alzheimer’s Disease”. In English that means they may have found molecules that help prevent damage caused in Alzheimer’s disease.

Although they will have to jump several more hurdles before this can be used in a real world drug, this is a major step for Folding@home. They are also working on applying these techniques to other projects, “we have pilot projects for Huntington’s Disease underway”.

The direct link to post is below so you can read it directly from them:

http://folding.typepad.com/news/2008/12/new-fah-results-on-possible-new-alzheimers-drug-presented.html

Keep up the folding simulations everyone!!!

The official Folding@Home stats page is now reporting a total of 4021 teraflops. This has seen a big increase recently after Sony released the life with playstaion.

I’m in france at the moment and took the time to visit Oradour with some friends. It is a town that was massacred by German forces in 1944 and has been left exactly as it was when the massacre occurred. Pretty grim place to be honest… lots of family graves (it was the family graves that got me). For anyone who doesn’t get a chance to go around it I’ve attached several videos to this blog entry.

Video (mp4) – Names of people killed in 1944 Oradour massacre

Video (mp4) – Oradour family graves 1

Video (mp4) – Oradour family graves 2

Video (mp4) – Oradour family graves 3

Video (mp4) – Oradour family graves 4