You can also see the team stats here: http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=199316
You can help by downloading the client for computers here (works on Windows, Linux, and Mac).
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Download
For high end computers, you can also download multiple High Performance Clients here:
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Download#ntoc5
You can also contribute with your PlayStation 3 console, just install the "Life With Playstation" app under the Network tab, then you can run the Life With Playstation app and find Folding@Home embedded within it! The Playstation 3's Cell Processor is especially good at cranking out the demanding folding that needs to be done to help find a cure for disease, so put it to proper use!
Together, we can help find a cure for diseases.
Our goal: to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases
You can help scientists studying these diseases by simply running a piece of software.
Folding@home is a distributed computing project -- people from throughout the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer takes the project closer to our goals. Folding@home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems millions of times more challenging than previously achieved.
Protein folding is linked to disease, such as Alzheimer's, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers
Moreover, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious consequences, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes.
What is protein folding?
Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out these important functions, they assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, in many ways remains a mystery.
What have we done so far?
We have had several successes. You can read about them on our Science page, on our Awards page, or go directly to our Results page.