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Former Member
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Hello fellow WCG members. I wanted to know if it is even possible to use WCG to try to find a cure for leukemia. My sister's husband's sister just recently got diagnosed with leukemia and I wanted to help in some way.
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hello fellow WCG members. I wanted to know if it is even possible to use WCG to try to find a cure for leukemia. My sister's husband's sister just recently got diagnosed with leukemia and I wanted to help in some way. Sorry about your sister's husband's sister - my mother just got over breast cancer. WCG doesn't create the projects that run on the grid; they just provide the infrastructure for doing so. You could contact leukemia researchers and see if they wanted to run a project on WCG. Also, FYI, Human Proteome Folding 2 has some indirect research benefits for cancer research. There is a new cancer project coming to WCG regarding X-ray crystallography of proteins involved in cancer, but I'm not sure which cancers those proteins belong to. [Edit 2 times, last edit by Former Member at Aug 29, 2007 8:50:23 PM] |
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Sekerob
Ace Cruncher Joined: Jul 24, 2005 Post Count: 20043 Status: Offline |
Hi Sx04,
----------------------------------------Sorry about your sister in law (is that what it is). Any form of cancer is a tough one or the Big C as they say in many nations. WCG is not doing anything specific to Leukemia, be it's soon to start the second Cancer Research project, building a new library based on 86 million or so images of cancer cells captured thru a process called "x-ray crystallography" which will help in the future to again better understand and easy identify the particular type, so stay tuned. cheers
WCG
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Former Member
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A new targeted drug shows promise in fighting several blood cancers.
Source: http://click.lls-email.org/?ju=fe271574706c06...d79&jb=ffcf14&t=m (taken from Leukemia & Lymphoma newsletter via email) Glad to see that there is progress being made. |
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