• justadudeingear@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Ive been folding @ home and sequencing proteins related to huntingtons research for a while now. I know i dont know much about science, but it makes me happy that maybe my computer helped even a tiny bit to help this venture. and now we can keep on perfecting it knowing its not for nothing.

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      3 days ago

      Even if you didn’t work on the winning protein you helped.

      Just like a rescue search party you looking in one place let someone else look in another. The person who finds the missing person is random. However if they were working alone they wouldn’t have found anything.

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      3 days ago

      I thought this was one of silly/joke on every thread but you’re being serious. You helped cure them!

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      2 days ago

      We may have never expected to profit but can’t put share of the profit go to reduce that cost to the victim? Even a tiny bit?