Heads up: Scheduled Maintenance

A handful of Stanford-hosted FAH servers—including a stats server— will be undergoing scheduled maintenance starting today until Thursday. Assignments and points should not be affected; however, points may not be…

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fah-web down, rebuild in motion

Our main web server for stats (https://foldingathome.org/) went down over the weekend due to a double failure.  Our sysadmins are working on this today and expect it to be up…

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Mechanistically distinct cancer-associated mTOR activation clusters predict sensitivity to rapamycin.

Genomic studies have linked mTORC1 pathway-activating mutations with exceptional response to treatment with allosteric inhibitors of mTORC1 called rapalogs. Rapalogs are approved for selected cancer types, including kidney and breast cancers. Here, we used sequencing data from 22 human kidney cancer cases to identify the activating mechanisms conferred by mTOR mutations observed in human cancers and advance precision therapeutics. mTOR mutations that clustered in focal adhesion kinase targetin…

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