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startail
Cruncher Joined: Dec 4, 2005 Post Count: 2 Status: Offline |
Hi!
I would like to start a thread about an illness called Sarcoidosis. It's an illness that has no know reason, and it has no known cure and anyone can get it. It's an autoimmune illness where small granulomas are formed in the patients body resulting in pain and loss of strength. It can be found on many places in the body such as joints, muscles, eyes and lungs and also on places like heart and brain where it can give really bad results. The only treatment today is painkillers, cortisone and/or chemotherapy. All with bad side effects and no real solution. Many people have once come across this illness, many that are unaware of it where the body heals itself, but a few cases are not. The body goes in and attacks itself and causing the granulomas to form and grow. I think it's about time to look into this illness and use the WCG for it. All we need is a institute that are willing to give out data for the grid to process that they can analyse. Some stories about Sarcoidosis: http://www.southcoastregister.com.au/story/1313757/a-world-of-pain/ Some Facts about Sarcoidosis: http://www.mountsinai.org/patient-care/servic...-care/sarcoidosis-program http://my.clevelandclinic.org/multimedia/transcripts/sarcoidosis.aspx http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcoidosis I think a place like Mount Sinai are a good place to ask. They seem to have a good program of research about this subject. What does everyone think? ![]() |
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Former Member
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All we need is a institute that are willing to give out data for the grid to process that they can analyse. They do not have to "give out data" they have to write the program. WCG does NOT write programs, it just runs them on behalf of the "scientists". So you are better off asking the scientists, not WCG......sorry ![]() |
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startail
Cruncher Joined: Dec 4, 2005 Post Count: 2 Status: Offline |
Guess I didn't really think when I wrote that. I still think this topic should be worked on. I'll try to advertise WCG to institutes and scientists that they should look in to this possibility. Maybe they don't know about the existence.
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Former Member
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Good idea. The more that do it the more likely that we get worthwhile projects!
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one-shot
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This isn't to undermine the importance of a cure to this disease, but the population affect by this is substantially lower than many of the more popular current and past WCG projects. There is a limited supply of CPU processing to run these simulations to find a cure, and it more worthwhile to find a cure which can bring the greatest good to the largest amount of the population.
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