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#1186

March 19th, 2008, 07:19 AM

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Sad to say, but i doubt it.

I guess you could come up with a cost of your computing time and write it off on your taxes, but most likely the new drug will cost a lot.

I'm almost always against government intervention, but drug prices is one of those places where i think they should step in.

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Originally Posted by Thr3ddy

Not to start a flame-war, but does anyone know if:

After a "cure" has been found for a certain disease because of folding, will the medicines be reduced in price for the patients because of all the free time put into it? I'd hate to support a "cause" which screws over patients like they are doing now in the US. If you know what I mean.

My wife currently has to pay close to $400 a week for a disease that has no cure -- and that's with insurance. I'd hate to see that happening to other people since most wouldn't be able to afford it.

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#1187

March 20th, 2008, 06:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Annie79

It's not really normal. There have been issues where folding points were not updating. I created a ticket with support and they have fixed it.

I think they fixed my points sticking and now they are stuck again, I will raise another ticket.

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March 20th, 2008, 06:10 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Thr3ddy

As well as folding for cure I would like to be optimisitic, who knows what the research may lead to. They may one day be able to detect and correct the problems that cause these diseases because of this research. Whatever our folding contributions do to help in the research to discover cures, I unfortunately think that the pharmaceutical companies that then manufacture any preventetive or assisting medicine is sadly another matter.

Definitely a cause that will be worth lobbying when that day comes.

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Thr3ddy agrees!

#1189

March 21st, 2008, 10:35 AM

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Maybe we could come with Opensource drug research!

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Thr3ddy agrees: Although fighting over this type of I.P. will be hard to do.

#1190

March 22nd, 2008, 08:56 PM

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The two posts above, I agree

Hit the 10,000 points mark today although it's not showing in my profile on DS yet.

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zynder agrees: no rep to give. but next target is 20k points.

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#1191

March 26th, 2008, 04:01 AM

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Finally, my fifth gear!!! It took a while but now i am back on the scoreboard. Next target is 100k.

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#1192

March 26th, 2008, 02:29 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Ebot

Maybe we could come with Opensource drug research!

Maybe what we need to do is form a network of people that agree to fold for an organization/college.

In trade for some much available CPU power per week, they will limit the income that they can earn on thier drugs (say 10%)

But who am i kidding, what organization is going to give up all the money in exchange for some free processor time?

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March 27th, 2008, 06:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Ebot

I think that anyone who cares about the current diseases we have and can spare the CPU and power should be folding.

To think that this research could help to solve some of the problems that are currently not predictable/stopable or cureable is fantastic. Fold to Cure

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March 27th, 2008, 07:38 AM

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There are 'significant' costs in pharmacology research and folding's only a part of that. My hope is that the research will be made available to all pharma companies, and the competition will keep the costs of such drugs low ...

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