Quantum Cures: Idle Computer Time Can Help Cure Diseases

How often do you turn your computer off at night when you go to sleep? If you’re anything like me, you leave your computer on most of the time. With the way those devices are set up, you don’t really have to worry about power consumption anyway. The thing is, unless the device is doing some important tasks, there really is no point in leaving it on, is there? Unless you devote your idle computing power to a bigger cause. You probably have an idea what I’m talking about. After all, using the idle computer time of people all over the world is not a new concept. We’ve all heard of projects such as SETI@home (Berkeley) and Folding@home (Stanford). The former is basically a scientific experiment that makes use of people’s idle computer time to search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), while the latter helps find cures for diseases. There is a newcomer to the scene: Quantum Cures. The entity was founded only in January, with the goal of designing drug molecules that will prevent, or cure, certain diseases such as the following:  Congenital toxoplasmosis Hodgkin Lymphoma Isolated spina bifida Noonan syndrome Familial melanoma So how is Quantum Cures different from Folding@home? [...]

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