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02 Jul 2014 – Advancing and expanding Help Fight Childhood Cancer research |
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Dr. Nakagawara, the lead researcher for Help Fight Childhood Cancer, provides an update on his continued efforts to advance his neuroblastoma drug candidate discovery, his transition to a new role and his hopes for expanding his research on World Community Grid to other pediatric cancers. |
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24 Jun 2014 – Better tools for AIDS drug research |
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The Scripps research team published a paper proving the effectiveness of a method to more accurately predict bindings between protein targets and drug candidates, which could benefit FightAIDS@Home and other World Community Grid drug discovery projects. |
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05 Jun 2014 – Clean Energy Project update |
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The team at Harvard provides an update which includes details of how a recent team member addition is changing the way they determine which new molecules to investigate; their ongoing collaborations with other research teams to accelerate their results and calculate electrical conductivity of targeted materials; and upcoming paper publications. |
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06 May 2014 – Temporary pause of the Clean Energy Project (Updated) |
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The researchers at Harvard are relocating their servers which requires a temporary pause on any new Clean Energy Project tasks being sent out. Distribution of new tasks will resume automatically once server migration work is complete. |
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05 May 2014 – Investigating work availability issues (Resolved) |
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Volunteers are experiencing issues receiving new research tasks or sending us results. We are investigating the root cause of this problem and will update members once we have more information. |
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25 Apr 2014 – Computing for Clean Water project update |
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Researchers announce the end of the project as they complete further studies to confirm interesting results gained from World Community Grid data and prepare to publish their exciting findings. |
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24 Apr 2014 – Replay available: Nutritious Rice for the World project webcast |
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The Nutritious Rice for the World project predicted the structures of key proteins in the rice plant, providing information that can help scientists develop better strains of rice. Watch a replay of last week's webcast in which project researcher, Dr. Hung, discussed the project, the publication of its results, its findings and its significance. |
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15 Apr 2014 – Live webcast for Nutritious Rice for the World: April 17th, 7:00pm UTC |
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Join us on April 17th at 3:00pm Eastern (7:00pm UTC) for a live online presentation that will review how our members helped researchers understand the structure of rice proteins. These results could support the development of better food for billions of people worldwide. |
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