I started leaving my PS3 on when I am not using it since discovering Folding@Home within the application "Life". Seems like a positive thing to do with my gaming console when I am not using it... I also get stats posted on stanfords site under my user name. To have a better understanding what the Folding@Home does I pasted the following description from thier website at http://folding.stanford.edu :
Our goal: to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases
What is protein folding and how is folding linked to disease?Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out these important functions, they assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, in many ways remains a mystery.
