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Computing a Cure For HIV 89

aarondubrow writes: The tendency of HIV to mutate and resist drugs has made it particularly difficult to eradicate. But in the last decade scientists have begun using a new weapon in the fight against HIV: supercomputers. Using some of the nation's most powerful supercomputers, teams of researchers are pushing the limits of what we know about HIV and how we can treat it. The Huffington Post describes how supercomputers are helping scientists understand and treat the disease.
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Computing a Cure For HIV

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  • Bitcoin mining? (Score:3, Interesting)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 21, 2014 @01:53PM (#47289207)

    Imagen if all that computer power was put to use such as finding the cure of HIV.... We would be done by lunch time.

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