Not using your computer at the moment? You can now donate your computer's idle time to cutting-edge biomedical research aimed at finding a cure for HIV, Parkinson's, arthritis, and breast cancer. Not ...

An average person can contribute idle computer time in a global effort to fight cancer thanks to a concept called "grid computing." This concept has been developed by a biomedical engineering ...

A biomedical engineering professor is using a concept called "grid computing" to allow the average person to donate idle computer time in a global effort to fight cancer. A biomedical engineering ...

SEATTLE — Researcher David Baker believes the key to an AIDS vaccine or a cure for cancer may be that old PC sitting under a layer ofdust in your closet or the one on your desk doing little else but ...

Idle grid computing — applying unused computer time to a task — is a great solution in need of a problem. Hundreds of millions of computers sit unused two-thirds of the day. Most of these PCs have the ...

Michela Taufer, a computer scientist at the University of Delaware, wants to find a cure for HIV, and she wants your help. No ph.D.? No problem. She’s created Docking@Home, a project supported by the ...