Perhaps someone could update the link in the orignal post to a proper one?

Was just going to say that...Of course, you posted it over a month ago!

First, as said, tick "never dial a connection".
But then, you would want to check out a neat little proggie called UD monitor. It is a program that allows you to have several work units on your PC and process them all, without the need to go online in between. I use it myself, works like a charm.

There is also a UD Monitor support thread over at the Grid.org forum.

There are some other apps you could try as well, but I have not tried any of the others.

Unfortunately the cancer research is gone and has been replaced by a search for vaccines against " potential bioterrorism weapon". Since things like smallpox exist only in American facilities like the CDC , the only country that can use it is the USA itself . This said I will spend my spare CPU cycles on SETI than helping the American government in their megalomaniac plans.

Mine is still working on the cancer program! You can manually change it I think.

Go to www.klov.com and check out the lymphoma cancer patients if that hits home with you. They are a very active bunch of posters about that subject. It's very sad to read some of their posts (a few folk have obviously died over the years). But then, some have had success stories.

Nobody likes a board about something serious and you get one post every couple of days.... THAT is not the place like that.

never saw this thread..must be blind

but..i joint

better late then never i think

I didn't think I'd begin to think of ways to overcome cancer this soon, but we are only mortals.

I will use this oppertunity to thank everybody for sharing there computerpower in the battle against cancer. For me it will be to late but let's hope that in the near future more and more people can be cured. It's nice to know that there are still al lot of good people out there in this world

Jeroen

if i use this program, does it need to be conected to work?

It needs to connect to the 'net at the beginning to get program and analysis data. Then it works offline. Whenever you connect from then on, it'll just gather more information in the background as it needs it.

ok, cool when i get home to my pc i will download it

whats the team name at grid?

I believe it's United Burners Fighting Against Cancer, or something like that. It starts with the words "United Burners" anyways...

But yeah, definitely a great cause to work for. I just got back from the memorial service for my 15 year old friend. She died of cancer this week. It's always harder when a young person is taken from us, and I hope I never understand what it's like for a parent to have to bury their child.

A fight for the cure is the noblest cause United Burners can undertake.

I look at it in terms of odds and the long-term. I would saying that the odds of success for a distributed computing network helping find a cure for cancer say within the next 30/50/100 years are a LOT better than the odds of finding intelligent life that could give us the cure to cancer within that same time period.

i had the cancer thing for abit of time, but then reaklised it said "smallpox reaserch handed over to US department of defense " i dont know if i wiould trust the US: DoD, why not the US department of heath?

ben

I feel the same way as you on that subject. That means that it is no longer having to do with health but more with war (perhaps on terrorism). But I just joined the Cancer project and they are no longer offering to work on the smallpox project anymore so I am not worried about it.

Amen to this! There are cancer sufferers in my family.

A news on TV yesterday said some things sold to children near elementary schools in South Korea can cause cancer quoting a doctor. From the video, it seemed like a place to make adhesives used for plastic and steel, not for the tongues and teeth of children. There may not be serious risk of cancer but I often feel it's the young children that are most exposed to health problems.

Repost from the "famous quotes" thread involving breast cancer-DON'T DRINK MILK!!!

"IGF-I survives digestion and has been identified as the key factor in breast cancer's growth. IGF-I is identical in human and cows. By drinking cow's milk one delivers IGF-I to the body's cells."
--Robert Cohen

"Human Insulin-like growth factor (IGF-I) and bovine IGF-I are
identical. Both contain 70 amino acids in the identical sequence."
--Judith C. Juskevich and C. Greg Guyer. SCIENCE, vol. 249. August 24,
1990.

"IGF-I is critically involved in the aberrant growth of human breast
cancer cells."
--M. Lippman. J. Natl. Inst. Health Res., 1991, 3.

"Estrogen regulation of IGF-I in breast cancer cells would support the
hypothesis that IGF-I has a regulatory function in breast cancer."
--A.V. Lee, Mol-Cell- Endocrinol., March, 99(2).

"IGF-I is a potent growth factor for cellular proliferation in the human
breast carcinoma cell line."
--J.C. Chen, J-Cell-Physiol., January, 1994, 158(1)

"Insulin-like growth factors are key factors for breast cancer growth."
--J.A. Figueroa, J-Cell-Physiol., Nov., 1993, 157(2)

"IGF-I produces a 10-fold increase in RNA levels of cancer cells. IGF-I
appears to be a critical component in cellular proliferation."
--X.S. Li, Exp-Cell-Res., March, 1994, 211(1)

"IGF-I plays a major role in human breast cancer cell growth."
--E.A. Musgrove, Eur-J-Cancer, 29A (16), 1993

"IGF-I has been identified as a key factor in breast cancer."
--Hankinson. The Lancet, vol. 351. May 9, 1998

"IGF-1 accelerates the growth of breast cancer cells."
--M. Lippman Science, Vol. 259, January 29, 1993

"Serum IGF-I levels increased significantly in milk drinkers, an
increase of about 10% above baseline but was unchanged in the control
group."
--Robert P. Heaney, Journal of the American Dietetic Association, vol.
99, no. 10. October 1999