Category: Science

Since Thursday was Thanksgiving in the US — a day when one eats lots of Turkey — I can’t resist talking about turkey and tryptophan. Every one knows what a…

We’ve been working to include more videos in our web pages.  The idea is to make them less dry, more alive, and more interesting.  We have several videos up, describing…

Today, I’ll start a new series of posts, where I talk about some of the concepts important for how FAH works, and also highlighted in our recent youtube posts.  Entropy…

We’ve been working with two high school teachers (David Paynter and Aminah Bilal) to give a full introduction to Folding@home for those with little or no science background.  We’ve made…

I’ll start highlighting some of our key results from FAH in this blog.  I’ll start with our most recent paper (paper #52  Control of Membrane Fusion Mechanism by  Lipid Composition:…

We’ve been working hard to update our FAQ’s.  We’ve gotten a great deal of help from many people both within the Pande group and outside.  7im (FAH forum moderator) has…

For those that are local to the Stanford area and are interested in hearing more about Folding@home, I’ll be speaking at the "Life in Motion" symposium this Thursday.  You can…

Running and further enhancing FAH is quite involved these days.  We’ve come a long way from the days were it was mainly me and just 2-3 other people.  Right now,…

We’ve been putting a lot of effort into studying the ribosome.  The ribosome is particularly important for proteins — it’s where the messenger RNA (mRNA) is converted into proteins, i.e.…

What causes proteins to fold?  This is a complex question, but there are some rules of thumb that have been learned especially for how proteins behave in vitro (eg in…