Spartans are contributing to a global effort to power the work of research scientists, as they attempt to unravel the inner workings of human proteins and study diseases like cancer, Alzheimer’s, Zika — and now COVID-19.
In teams across Michigan State University, researchers are dedicating the use of computers to simulations in a protein folding project called Folding@home.
The project takes a system’s unused resources and devotes this power to protein folding simulations, a process that helps researchers understand how proteins are assembled and how diseases are formed at a cellular level. These computer simulations have led to a better understanding of a wide variety of conditions.
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