Neverdem has posted a topic discussing new research avenues in Alzheimer's Disease.
Bayer has completed stage 2 trials of the drug florbetaben that works as a marker for beta amyloids in the brain, potentially allowing for a new diagnostic treatment that can be performed while the patient is still alive. Of which I am in favor.
Research in an antihistamine that improves Alzheimer's symptoms, a metal chelation therapy that traps copper ions and research into the different types of amyloids for toxicity round out as fantastic post.
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The Folding@home team at Stanford University has a couple of updates.
First, the servers will be replaced over the next month or so by a new class of servers EACH having 48 TB of storage. This will help out greatly in keeping work units available.
Second, software upgrades to the core software is planned. Work on the GPU3 project promises speed increases on the high end video cards that some use, a new technique to speed up all cores called Normal Mode Langevin (NML) Dynamics is heading to beta, and work is progressing to allow for “simple” SMP cores in Windows and other systems.
Last, I wont to highlight some of the milestones that folders have hit in the last few weeks:
SazanEyes just hit 10,000,000 points
Klutz Dohanger is back and over 9,000,000 points
NAPA_Laurel and mouser both hit 2,000,000 points this week
Onelife hit 1,000,000 points last week
mschalock, LonePalm and HangThemHigh are all over 800,000 points
sshultz460 just hit 300,000 points
jdowntown is a new folder who has hit 40,000 points
Congrats to all, especially our new folders.
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Current versions of clients:
Windows console and system tray: 6.23
Mac OS X: 6.26.3
Linux: 6.02 with a beta for 6.24
Playstation 3: 1.3.1
Thanks to one and all for folding!
For more information on Folding@home and how you can help save lives and advance research, please lookie here:
BTTT
Thanks for riding herd on this; good to be apprised of progress arising out of it.
I’m scheduled hit half a million sometime around Thanksgiving.
Haven’t nosed about the forums recently; still hoping for a graphical client that plays well in the sandbox with OpenGL. Meanwhile, console clients continue apace.