Great news!

Whether there is a phase 3 or not, in my view crunching for any of the other medical projects on WCG (or other DC sites) helps your particular favoured project indirectly also.

Why do I say that? Well what will happen if say the Cancer or Aids projects yields a cure? Will all those working on Cancer or Aids cures suddenly be unemployed and retrain as hairdressers/plumbers/etc. Well.., yes.. and no..

There may be no need to work on Cancer or Aids any more but most of those scientists will have transferable skills, so they will simply move over to other projects looking for cures for other ailments (such as HCMD) with only a little retraining being needed. Finding a cure for one illness will also free up research labs and charitable funding to look for cures for other ailments.

Hi Mike (kismetix) we have a nephew, also called Mike, in the Philippines who is 6 years old with Duchene. I don't know the details of his specific case but its very frustrating not being able to do more for him directly. Fundraising for ongoing research is our best hope. My wife had two elder brothers who died in the late 1940s, but were probably misdiagnosed back then as having polio.

@Widdershins - good point about re-deploying of scientists. I have been a supporter of the WCG since an early interest in SETI@home back in 2006, so I fully intend to continue with whatever work is available.

CONGRATULATIONS FOR ALL CRUNCHING TILL THE END !

I was directly concerned as my son is 34 and has a neuro-muscular since he was born.
That is the interest of such research-i mean fundamental research-
As the effects of the illness appear within a very long time we need not only to point to one gene but also to apprehend the interactions of
the proteins involved in the processus.
Still crunch for other projects as every research is directed to benefit humans and exchange between scientists do miracles sometimes

Hello Choj01

Congratulations on attaining your 5 year mission mark! Your efforts are very greatly appreciated and applauded by us on HCMD.

As for myself, I'm trying to hit the 4 year mark and it looks like I'll make it. There appears to be enough remaining workunits over the next couple of weeks to make this possible.

Also, I seem to have picked up a couple of other badges on projects that downloaded onto my task list over the past couple of months. So, my single sapphire badge for HCMD now has some other badges to go along with it...