Binding of chaperone receptor to lysosome - anti-aging?

[susato]

Looks like a job for F@H! The lysosome is a membrane; the receptor is a protein.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1 ... %20protein

[alancabler]

Some of the research published by F@h may have already helped those researchers' efforts, who knows...

[cbuchner1]

I doubt it. Folding@Home is doing some very basic research, essentially trying to figure out how a protein folds and with what likelyhood the protein switch fromes one configuration to another. That's very basic research at this point, and it's done on a small selection of relatively simple and special proteins that are known to fold quickly. This is what I was able to gather from the papers on the science page.

So everyone who's thinking this research will directly lead to a cure for cancer or development of new medicine: Reality Check!

Christian

[MtM]

I doubt it. Folding@Home is doing some very basic research, essentially trying to figure out how a protein folds and with what likelyhood the protein switch fromes one configuration to another. That's very basic research at this point, and it's done on a small selection of relatively simple and special proteins that are known to fold quickly. This is what I was able to gather from the papers on the science page.

So everyone who's thinking this research will directly lead to a cure for cancer or development of new medicine: Reality Check!

Christian

You're sounding so negative, I'm sure you can point to protein folding simulation projects which handle more complex one's then f@h?

No one here is under that impression, everyone who looked into it knows where laying the foundation for future research. Understanding is the key though, you can randomly try to come up with medication to help stop a desease, or you can find ways to understand and prevent a desease or erredicate it when it does happen.

The reality is, I lost familly to cancer, and in my opinion, this is the fastest route to help prevent others from the losses I endured. Untill you can tell me about a quicker way and back that up with facts, I'll continue to think so.