COVID Moonshot Sprint 10
Sprint 10 aims to help optimize the P1 pocket substituent to work around metabolism issues with our current best lead compounds. We’ve been quiet lately, but that’s because we’ve been…
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2020 in review, and happy new year 2021!
TL;DR: During 2020, Folding@home was like the citizens’ fleet in the movie Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Everyone came together to face a common foe, in this case the…
Read moreSARS-CoV-2 Nsp16 activation mechanism and a cryptic pocket with pan-coronavirus antiviral potential
As we all know, coronaviruses are a major threat to human health. In the past two decades these viruses have caused three epidemics: SARS in 2004, MERS in 2012, and…
Read moreCOVID Moonshot Sprint 5
Sprint 5 to prioritize compounds for the open science patent-free COVID Moonshot drug discovery project has launched! Rev up your GPUs to help develop a new therapy.
Read moreCould a new class of antibodies treat COVID-19 in a manner that avoids resistance?
Several antibodies are now in clinical trials to both treat and provide protection against COVID-19. But one of these binds in a completely surprising way, and in a manner that may head off viral resistance. How does it work? We’re trying to find out!
Read moreCOVID Moonshot Sprint 4
As the COVID Moonshot continues to make rapid progress, the fourth free energy sprint focused on a backup lead series that suddenly pulls into the lead!
Read moreTogether we are Even More Powerful: GPU folding gets a powerup with NVIDIA CUDA support!
Folding@home adds CUDA support to give NVIDIA GPUs big boosts in speed!
Read moreLaunching the Third Weekly Sprint for the COVID Moonshot!
We’re launching the third weekly compound prioritization sprint for the COVID Moonshot! This sprint focuses on our benzotriazole lead series. These compounds came about from a previous series of potent…
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Help us reach our weekend goal so the COVID Moonshot can make rapid progress toward a COVID-19 therapy! The First COVID Moonshot Weekly Sprint has just come to a close!…
Read moreIntroducing COVID Moonshot weekly sprints: Help us discover a new therapy
Join our weekly sprints to prioritize compounds to make and test!
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