Survival is aided by knowledge...
Knowledge improves with science...
Honorable mention to texas booster and all of the other legendary Free Republic Folders Team members who donate computer power to the Stanford Folding@Home distributed computing project.
When you're not using your computers, graphics processors, or PlayStation 3 game machines for work, or play, or the serious business of FReeping, you can let Stanford University's Folding@Home project keep your systems busy performing scientific simulations for the ongoing study of the way proteins fold (or mis-fold).
Mis-folding proteins are thought to be a major factor, or even the cause, of diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Huntington's, as well as certain cancers.
