we are all just part of the lab staff ... the only thing we can guarantee is that if we weren't all here folding there will not be any major breakthroughs!
Also, I don't believe there have been any major scientific breakthroughs in any field without many small steps seeding other small steps.
Einstein may have been a great theoretician, but without thousands of other scientists working on his theories, his work might now be just a bunch of old papers and books collecting dust somewhere.
I am doubtful that the basic research that Stanford is doing will directly result in that breakthrough. Instead I believe it will further other scientist's understanding of proteins and in combination with other efforts, will result in lots of major breakthroughs.
If science was more deterministic, we would have solved most of today's biology problems already, and be working on solving on new ones we haven't even recognized yet.
Join our FOLD, or join any FOLD ... just fold even if it is not 724. Else all those cpu cycles are just a wasted opportunity!
