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Di - 31 Dec 2005 05:11 GMT
Just a little article I wrote the other day for my blogsite:

http://dustydoggie.blogspot.com/2005/12/folding-proteins.html

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Alex - 31 Dec 2005 18:51 GMT
> Just a little article I wrote the other day for my blogsite:
>
> http://dustydoggie.blogspot.com/2005/12/folding-proteins.html

Nice blog Di, keep on a folding & you may catch up to me. ^_^

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Alex,

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Di - 01 Jan 2006 02:15 GMT
> > Just a little article I wrote the other day for my blogsite:
> >
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> GramPaHugs,
> Alex,

Nope, I'll never catch up to you.  But, thanks for the nod.  It means
alot.

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Diane - 01 Jan 2006 17:45 GMT
di, i just don't understand this. i've read about you folding peops
here on asa for years, but try as i might, i don't understand what
protein folding is. can someone explain it in 25 words or less on, say,
a fifth grade level?

diane
Alex - 01 Jan 2006 19:31 GMT
> di, i just don't understand this. i've read about you folding peops
> here on asa for years, but try as i might, i don't understand what
> protein folding is. can someone explain it in 25 words or less on, say,
> a fifth grade level?
>
> diane

Take a string of pop beads (DNA) of 4 different colors & twist it so
every bead is touching at least 2 other beads.

 We'll call that configuration 'Normal' now if something messes up
that configuration we have 'not Normal' & possibly disease.

 What the Folding @ home program is doing is figuring out all the
possible ways that string can twist or fold & what the result of that
different fold can do to our health.

This is how the new biologic medicines are being developed. Stanford
shares the result of our calculations with the drug companies & they
figure out how to use that information to create a new drug.

Their explanation is at,
http://folding.stanford.edu/science.html

Just look at the pictures if the idea is to confusing.

GramPaHugs,
Alex,

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Diane - 01 Jan 2006 23:01 GMT
alex, thank you. this is just amazing and fantabulous. plus, incredible
that just regular people can contribute to science in this way.

diane
Di - 04 Jan 2006 00:18 GMT
> > di, i just don't understand this. i've read about you folding peops
> > here on asa for years, but try as i might, i don't understand what
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> GramPaHugs,
> Alex,

Thanks, Alex.  You described it much more succinctly than I ever could.  
Fact is, I couldn't.  <g>
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