what the heck is a folding team?

[GUI_Tex]

I keep seeing multiple references to folding@home, and yada ya.. but I still dont know what the heck a folding team is for, and what they heck they do, fold stuff?, making a cure for aids, money? what do they do exactly?

[GUI_Tex]

"Spreading Firefox while folding proteins to help Stanford University's research on diseases and to gain a better understanding of how proteins fold."

folding proteins?

[eyes-open]

There you go

http://folding.stanford.edu/

As I subscribe to the magazine I chose to be in the CustomPC team.