World Community Grid Karuna Resource Center FightAIDS@Home Display Sign

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This sign points visitors to the upstairs display room (snapshots posted in prior post-click "back to blog" link above). When touched in Second Life, the sign provides visitors an option to visit a World Community Grid (WCG) page where anyone can choose to join the new Friends of Karuna Team. The upstairs displays also give out additional information links on the FightAIDS@Home research project.

What is FightAIDS@Home?"

FightAIDS@Home is the first biomedical distributed computing project ever launched. It is run by the Olson Laboratory at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California. We provide free software that you download and install. The software uses your computer's idle cycles to assist fundamental research in discovering new drugs, building on our growing knowledge of the structural biology of AIDS. In addition, this research helps us study the mechanisms of multi-drug-resistance that the "super bugs" of HIV use to escape the current anti-AIDS drugs. And this research helps us create, test, refine, and share the tools and protocols that thousands of other labs use in their research against other diseases.

source: http://fightaidsathome.scripps.edu/