You can help to find a cure for cancer!

	FERRITS - HELP FIGHT CANCER!
Calling all Ferrits - You can help the scientists in their quest to find a cure for cancer - with almost no effort on your part. The news article below explains how. Your computer does the work for you (honest!). Come on, Ferring, give it a go ... I have. Let's see if we can start a trend amongst English villages by being the first village to volunteer our help - as a community! .		Go to www.ud.com to read how you can help, and to download a tiny program to do it.
CHANNEL 4 NEWS - Downtime miracle Broadcast: April 3, 2001 Reporter: Krishnan Guru-Murthy
Now how would you like to help in the fight against cancer with minimal effort and expense? Because scientists from Oxford University and an American research company have joined together on a project which they hope will speed up research into anti-cancer drugs. They want to exploit the unused power from personal computers to help them process scientific information. It's a really simple idea to crack an immensely huge problem. The untapped power of a single computer processor can do a tiny fraction of a gigantic calculation - but link a million or more - each doing a tiny fraction of the work - and you've got a supercomputer. Download a programme off the UD.Com website and your PC will beaver away in the background at screening a hundred molecules for anti-cancer activity. Cancer researchers are excited at the prospect not only of the research but of involving potentially millions of people in the fight against the disease. And when your computer has finished processing its share - the next time you log onto the internet the programme will send its findings automatically to the researchers at Oxford to fit into the jigsaw of two hundred and fifty million chemicals. Peer to Peer networking, as its called, took off two-years ago with the Search for Extra Terrestrial Life - or SETI project. A similar screen saver programme has since been downloaded by over two million people and processes information received from space by radiotelescopes - in the hope that some it might make sense and prove ET is out there somewhere. If the Cancer research programme can get as many users, the scientists hope to achieve in five years what before might have taken decades.