All of my own results are important. What results are NOT important to you?

I am missing the point.

Perhaps you mean the project papers or overall wrapup discussion from the scientists on each project page.

Thanks for the response. My curiosity revolves around, for example, how many of the tasks my systems have run did actually make it to the lab. Have any made it to clinical trials?

As an oversimplification, it would be foolish and extreme hubris to say "I cured cancer," but it is possible that any one of us has been the mule that may have lead to a breakthrough. While participation in the grids is effectively dumb labor (we aren't generally involved in research, devising approaches, implementing tasks, analyzing results, lab trials, clinical trials, the myriad of medical, legal, financial and ethical questions involved bringing a drug to market, etc), we could have still be involved in something extraordinary.

It would be nice to know. Although I see retsof's point, I don't believe retsof understood mine. While even a "failed" task effectively scratches one possibility off the list of potential solutions, and therefore brings us closer to an actual solution, the fact is there isn't a feedback mechanism that I've found either way.

Absolutely our work is making it to the lab.

And beyond! The Help Defeat Cancer team hope to have Tissue Microarrays become a normal tool in diagnosing and treating cancers - and in a very short timeframe, too.

FightAIDS@Home have already begun labwork on the first phases of their work crunched here on our grid. But these preliminary trials are still a long way from clinical trials - developing drugs is a slow business.

And academic research takes quite a long time from initial research to final publication - always months, and sometimes years, while the results are checked and peer reviewed. Usually, the actual publication will come out long after we have finished our part. For example, the first publication from the original HPF project has now been published, months after we completed it - and that paper was from the very first part of the project, and was submitted for review long before HPF had finished.

Patience is our watchword, even if it's sooooo frustrating at times.