A team in Japan has used the processing power of citizens’ phones and computers to find a cure for neuroblastoma. Now, it’s focusing on childhood cancer.
Japanese scientists want your help to cure cancer. No, they don’t want your money — they want the processing power of your phone.
The Smash Childhood Cancer project utilises people’s phones and computers to run drug simulations, which would take thousands of years to run on a single computer.
Akira Nakagawara and his team at the Saga-ken Medical Centre Koseikan developed the system, which they call the World Community Grid, in 2004 alongside IBM .
