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Another project enabled for Android smartphones and tablets is FightAIDS@Home.
Another project enabled for Android smartphones and tablets is FightAIDS@Home. The Olson Laboratory at the Scripps Research Institute is using computational methods to identify new candidate drugs that have the right shape and chemical characteristics to block HIV protease, HIV integrase, or HIV reverse transcriptase, the three enzymes that the deadly AIDS virus needs to function and spread.
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