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If you have a PC or laptop you can put it to good use folding proteins to help cure diseases. Most recently, COVID 19. You just need to visit this site here -

https://foldingathome.org/

You can do this anonymously, or you can join a team. I am currently folding for Team Redline on Overclock3D team number 98860.

If you want to fold for a team you need to get a passkey, which will be sent to your email address.

The only thing I will say is keep an eye on your system temps. Most notably your graphics card and CPU. You can do that with this -

https://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html

While it's definitely good-intentioned, I'd inject a note of caution. The only scientific data or opinion backing up the usefulness of folding@home is sponsored by and co-authored by the people who run folding@home. There's no independent data or even opinion stating that it offers any real value to the field of protein folding. So have a good research before pumping up your power bill, folks.

Also bear in mind that running your PC flat-out all night is going to shorten its lifespan. Obviously that's not such a problem for some, but it's something to consider.

As someone who did biochemistry type things at university, I can't help but have significant doubts about the usefulness of folding at home.

It's helped me with the toilet paper shortage.

I hate folding but mrs. W says I have to do it or my shirts will be creased

I don't recall it being mentioned in my time in structural biology, but that was a long while back.

Hard to fold from home when computers don't exist yet.

Computational vs experimental folding was only mentioned in passing, and the field may well have moved on since then. (CRISPR has rather revolutionised the molecular genetics area that I specialised in. Things don't stand still, after all)