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Richard Mitnick
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Feb 28, 2007 Post Count: 583 Status: Offline Project Badges: |
New news on Ebola work at Vanderbilt University.
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Richard Mitnick
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Feb 28, 2007 Post Count: 583 Status: Offline Project Badges: |
Thanks to whoever visited the blog. I appreciate it very much.
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robertmiles
Senior Cruncher US Joined: Apr 16, 2008 Post Count: 443 Status: Offline Project Badges: |
Tackling Ebola With GPUs
https://news.developer.nvidia.com/researchers-are-tackling-ebola-with-gpus/ This doesn't look like a method using volunteers with BOINC. |
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Robert Heikkinen
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First of all WCG does not use GPU.
The other thing in the text is even more scarier. https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/research...earching-treatment-ebola/ |
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keithhenry
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Jim Slade
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First Ebola Vaccine Likely to Stop the Next Outbreak
The world now has a potent weapon against Ebola: a vaccine that brings outbreaks to a screeching halt, scientists report Thursday in The Lancet. "We were able to estimate the efficacy of the vaccine as being 100 percent in a trial" says Ira Longini, a biostatistician at the University of Florida, who helped test the vaccine. "It's very unusual to have a vaccine that protects people perfectly." http://tinyurl.com/zjlemw9 |
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UBT - JohnR
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So is it now time to close down this project?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-38414060 If they are now going to stockpile the new vaccine I don't see the need to continue with Outsmart Ebola Together. Ebola done Zita to do. |
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Dayle Diamond
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It takes a very long time to immunize a population. Heck, even people with all the advantages in the world skip out on required vaccines all the time.
So we're gonna need at least one cure, and realistically a second. Mono-therapy would lead to resistances. Also, we're not really just studying Ebola, we're studying other, similar diseases like the Lassa Virus. That said, supposedly, we've done the vast majority of the batches, and only these last flexible work units remain. Unless the last WU is needed to interpret the first, I don't see why we can't pause for a while at 90% of compounds tested while we move resources to projects that kill more people per year (TB in particular). |
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KLiK
Master Cruncher Croatia Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Post Count: 3108 Status: Offline Project Badges: |
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Retired hobbyist
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Faster methods for analyzing molecular structures:
New algorithms may revolutionize drug discove...our understanding of life cryoSPARC: algorithms for rapid unsupervised cryo-EM structure determination cryoSPARC |
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