Android News: Your Smartphone may Help Make the Next Big Scientific Breakthrough

We all want to do our part to help those who are less fortunate healthwise, but not all of us are brilliant researchers and scientists. However, we all have at least one extremely capable tool for making progress in the world of fighting disease: a smartphone. Once Dr. Vijay Pande and Sony have their Folding@Home app pass Beta testing, all you’ll have to do is download the app from the Google Play Store and have it run on your phone whenever you want, doing calculations and folding proteins in order to aid laboratories Stanford in finding a cure for Alzheimer’s or cancer.

The app is still in testing phase right now, which means it will only work on a Sony Xperia device, but if you own a Sony smartphone, by all means download the app and try it out. The general idea behind using smartphones to run calculations is that using modest processor power from hundreds of thousands of smartphones and tablets is much more powerful and cost efficient than using supercomputers. The idea has been done successfully in 2012 with PS3 gaming systems, but since smartphones have much more market saturation, Sony and Stanford have had their eyes set on your pockets for a while.

The app will be free for everyone and will pass through beta testing in early 2015, so keep checking back to see if it Folding@Home has been released yet!

Excited about the chance to help out a little in the world of disease research? Skeptical about the difference a few smartphones can make? Either way, leave a comment below and get the conversation started!

Source: Sony Blog

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