Rather than writing a lengthy page of it, the best way to find out is through the official website. Basically, it's research to understand how proteins assemble or misassemble. The implications are cures or treatments for diseases as alzheimers, mad cow disease, parkinsons, HIV/AIDS, and many many more. Check out the website, there's as little or as much information there as you want.
That is our everything about folding thread. It can pretty much tell you anything about it. Kingfish got the jist of it. When proteins duplicate in your body, sometimes they mis'fold' and folding is a project where stanford university is trying to duplicate the process to better understand whats going on. Thus hoping to find cures for cancers and other diseases.
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That is our everything about folding thread. It can pretty much tell you anything about it. Kingfish got the jist of it. When proteins duplicate in your body, sometimes they mis'fold' and folding is a project where stanford university is trying to duplicate the process to better understand whats going on. Thus hoping to find cures for cancers and other diseases.
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