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-Folding@Home is a distributed computing project -- people from through out the
-world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest
-supercomputers in the world. Every computer makes the project closer to our
-goals.
-Folding@Home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing,
-to simulate problems thousands to millions of times more challenging than
+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.
 
-WWW: http://folding.stanford.edu
+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.
+
+WWW: http://folding.stanford.edu/