3.16.2007

Playstations To Aid Medical Research

From Tech News World:

The evolution of video gaming took another quantum leap forward this week with the announcement that researchers are now enlisting Sony's (NYSE: SNE) Latest News about Sony PlayStation 3 Latest News about PlayStation 3 (PS3) in the fight against diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's and several forms of cancer.

The Tokyo-based Sony said owners of Internet-connected PS3s will now be able to participate in a range of scientific experiments led by Stanford University's Folding@home program.

The Stanford program is focusing on how two-dimensional protein strands in the human body fold into the three-dimensional molecules, according to Vijay Pande, associate professor of chemistry at Stanford University and lead researcher on the project.


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