VIRTUAL VOLUNTEERS SUPPORT PROJECTS THAT BENEFIT HUMANITY!

   If you have a computer connected to the Internet, you can make a difference in the lives of millions of people who need help.  It’s as simple as joining our HandsOn team.

   Hands On Orlando is an international partner of the World Community Grid.  The Grid and volunteers like you have linked up over 1.5 million computers to solve huge problems: like preventing Cancer and ending AIDS.

   After clicking on the HandsOn link, fill-in a simple form and download a safe program to get started.  You won’t even notice that your computer is on the Grid.

   Your computer will process and return small batches of research data that will be analyzed by scientists and researchers. 

   It’s also easy to monitor your positive impact.  You will generate points every time your computer processes data. 

UPDATE

   Researchers from the FightAIDS@Home project on the World Community Grid have found a potentially new way to fight drug resistant strains of AIDS.

   The virus which causes AIDS uses the actions of a protein called HIV protease to reproduce and spread in the body.  Drugs called HIV inhibitors are currently used to keep AIDS in check by disabling this protein. These drugs attach to the HIV protease at points called binding sites which disable the protein so that it cannot perform the actions needed for the virus to replicate. However, the AIDS virus mutates or changes rather rapidly and these new strains of HIV are becoming more resistant to the current HIV inhibitor drugs.

   The scientists at the Scripps Research Institute have found two compounds which can attach to HIV protease at newly discovered binding sites.  This may lead to a new class of drug treatments for AIDS which can address the drug resistant HIV strains. 

   World Community Grid is being used for virtual screening experiments to develop a new class of HIV inhibitors based on the new binding sites.

SOURCE: World Community Grid, March, 2010

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