An international project based at Stanford University is using crowd-sourced computer power to study protein folding.
Even though scientists have sequenced the entire human genome, which is the blueprint for all of the proteins in the human body, the sequence itself doesn't explain how proteins take on a particular shape and perform their functions, whether as an enzyme or an antibody.
In the case of Alzheimer's disease, when proteins misfold then they can clump together and collect in the brain, from where they are believed to cause the symptoms of the disease.
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