Now Playstation can save life
Sony’s PS3 is not just a feast for gaming aficionados but is a modeled tool for medical research. The processing power of the product is the source that can be a worthy influence behind the success of the medical research project.
The console’s ability to connect to the internet enables the incumbent to download a program that signs them up to http://folding.stanford.edu/ a project set up by the chemistry department of California’s Stanford University.
Through this project, the integrated web of computers can help in testing the simulations of folding and misfolding, which understand the the birth of many diseases, including Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, BSE (mad cow disease), cancer, Huntington’s and cystic fibrosis. It also examines the way through which potential drugs will bind to proteins in the body. At present, more than 14,000 active PS3 users had connected to Folding@home’s online software alongwith 642,778 anonymous computers signed up for the project. Isn’t the contribution great? What are you waiting for? Go ahead…..