Excellent news, good work everyone - scientists, WCG techs, WCG crunchers, IBM.

Now, I would just love to see a webcast for HFCC where these compounds and the significance of this breakthrough can be presented by the scientists themselves. I think that would be an awesome idea! *twink, twink* ;)

This is great news for the team working on NB cure! This makes us really feel better - that you may have contributed to helping a kid in the future getting better!
Even if our contributions are like grains of sand, when there are many grains...
Thank you all for making this possible! Way to go WCG! And continue crunching!
Good luck, Dr. Nakagawara and team!

The truth is that developing a drug from the results of this or any other project of the WCG without support from a major company is close to impossible. Chiba doesn't have the necessary equipment/money. By non-profit, I believe WCG is saying that they themselves don't profit from this endeavor and that all the data is publicly available for ANYONE to use. I don't think anyone would give millions to this project without being able to sell the resulting drug(s).

Hello Saul Luizaga,
I considered several replies. My first thought was a somewhat intemperate reply - it seemed only fair. My second thought was a more scholarly study of libertarian political principles which would allow the cheap development of medical cures. There is a chapter in Jared Diamond's "Guns Germs And Steel" which explains why societies of various sizes develop different techniques that prevent members of that society from killing each other. Unfortunately, the techniques used by societies of our size preclude the development of a libertarian society. I brought up "Guns Germs And Steel" on my computer to let me find the chapter rather than walking over to my book shelf.

But then I just decided on a straight answer. The planet Earth is split up into nation states that control the surface. Every nation state requires expensive paper work, studies and government licenses for permission to treat people with medicine. For our purposes, there are 3 kinds of state regimes. The first type enforces the formal requirements, despite horrendous delays and expenses. The second type also requires pecuniary emoluments to recompense the government officials for their time and trouble. This type is even more expensive. The third type only requires the money for the licenses and is cheaper. On the other hand, people in this type of state have little if any control over what is done to them.

If you really want to cure people, this is the only game in town. All cures are backed by corporations or similar organizations. It's the law. Non-profit means no money goes to the people who (like us) do enough research and development to interest a corporation in a cure. We do it to help cure people.

This is just my private and personal opinion. It has nothing to do with the World Community Grid.


Lawrence

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The government models of Capitalism, Socialism and Dictatorship you exposed are monetary-based policies that eventually give up on money power, that's why my signature promotes activism over better economic systems and that's the reason war and permanent treatment and never ending diseases exist, profit, lots of it, and people not in powered are the ones paying for it, ironically we put those governments there to administrate us, anyway, perfect solutions, like Libertarianism are futile utopias that are partially won only and because money people allows it, the moment they don't we're screwed, fortunately perfect solutions would be imperfect for our imperfect existence and a perfected enough solution is enough, for now, until a better solution (Resource Based Economy or something better) comes along, yes this is the only way to help sick people, that mostly are sick because of the monetary system we live in and some people with money makes sure they stay that way, so we have to do some help, so an approximation to ideals is enough but the WCG is far from it, it's just a patch, yes things won't change overnight, they'll probably take several generations but, asking skeptical questions being reasonable and rational is the start, and reason should be answer with reason, you did, it was not extraordinary as you'd like to think, it was fair, as so, a harsh comment would have merit and got a similar response from me, which would've been pointless since it'd be just venting anger and not constructive at all.

@Byuda: Yes, I understand, hence my answer above. I'll keep helping the sick people because they need it, but know this, we're being voluntarily scammed, so the sick can find a cure, IF AND ONLY IF, the pharmaceutical companies don't make it a never ending treatment as it's the profitable tendency. Also a condition for the Research Centers should be to put the WCG logo on their database, website and demand the pharmaceutical company to add it on the label of their final product(s) too, it's fair and decent.

I thank you both for showing me points I didn't consider when i wrote my posts, there fore I concluded to continue helping, but I wanted to clarify money is unfortunately our way to control resources, not the reason of everything.