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Falconet
Master Cruncher Portugal Joined: Mar 9, 2009 Post Count: 3315 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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We have already reached out to several of our research partners, who either work in related areas, or who are affiliated with organizations which may be involved in Zika research, to see if there is a need for World Community Grid's vast computational resources. Those conversations are ongoing. As SekeRob mentions, Zika is now a serious global health threat and we're very interested in helping out in any way possible. Interesting :) Thanks! (looking forward to new projects by the way :D)  - AMD Ryzen 5 1600AF 6C/12T 3.2 GHz - 85W - AMD Ryzen 5 2500U 4C/8T 2.0 GHz - 28W - AMD Ryzen 7 7730U 8C/16T 3.0 GHz |
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SekeRob
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Money no object [so this is indicated], with 1.8 BILLION USD being asked to be pegged by the Obama admin: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35524753
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jhindo
Former World Community Grid Admin Joined: Aug 25, 2009 Post Count: 250 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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More about our readiness to support Zika research: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/viewNewsArticle.do?articleId=461
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BladeD
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Good to hear!
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KLiK
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there's also an article on Facebook page...so some of you might comment or share:
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gprobst7421
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Anyone reach out to UW Madison? Top tier research University with a very strong Virology research history....
http://news.wisc.edu/uw-madison-researchers-begin-work-on-zika-virus/ They already run their own grid compute system but who knows *shrug* |
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Falconet
Master Cruncher Portugal Joined: Mar 9, 2009 Post Count: 3315 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Anyone reach out to UW Madison? Top tier research University with a very strong Virology research history.... http://news.wisc.edu/uw-madison-researchers-begin-work-on-zika-virus/ They already run their own grid compute system but who knows *shrug* I just sent them an email about World Community Grid. - AMD Ryzen 5 1600AF 6C/12T 3.2 GHz - 85W - AMD Ryzen 5 2500U 4C/8T 2.0 GHz - 28W - AMD Ryzen 7 7730U 8C/16T 3.0 GHz |
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SekeRob
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Hot off the press, a twist, in Argentina they were adding an insecticide, pyriproxifen, to the drinking-water to kill mosquito larvae in drinkwater storages since about 18 months. Non of the 3200 pregnant women in Colombia being monitored show signs in the foetus, no use of pyriproxifen, whereas in Brazil where many cases were found, they do.
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KLiK
Master Cruncher Croatia Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Post Count: 3108 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Hot off the press, a twist, in Argentina they were adding an insecticide, pyriproxifen, to the drinking-water to kill mosquito larvae in drinkwater storages since about 18 months. Non of the 3200 pregnant women in Colombia being monitored show signs in the foetus, no use of pyriproxifen, whereas in Brazil where many cases were found, they do. saw that news on "alternative sites", mostly with hate speech about Monsanto...& when on site I see Monsanto & aliens - there's not much credit to believe them! don't get me wrong, I don't like Monsanto...but most of texts out there is a garbage! but, there might be some truth in this pyriproxifen & mosquitoes... |
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SekeRob
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There was news that in labs they'd seen zika attacking the laminated cortex [tree bark] cells of the brain and in the New England journal of medicine there's an article about zika doing much more http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1602412
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