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Não precisa doar tempo, nem dinheiro, nem ser um grande cientista; Veja como contribuir com o projeto OpenZika

A Universidade Federal de Goiás, em parceria com o World Community Grid e cientistas de vários países lançou na manhã desta quinta-feira (19/5) o projeto OpenZika, um estudo desenvolvido para identificar possíveis medicamentos antivirais para combater o vírus zika, responsável por uma epidemia de microcefalia em bebês de todo o Brasil.

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A Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG) lidera uma pesquisa para descobrir medicamentos voltados a pacientes com Zika Vírus.

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Rutgers is taking a leading role in an IBM-sponsored World Community Grid project that will use supercomputing power to identify potential drug candidates to cure the Zika virus. The project, known as OpenZika, employs a global team of scientists who will perform “virtual” experiments in a search of treatments for the fast-spreading virus that the World Health Organization has declared a global public health emergency.

OpenZika will screen current drugs and millions of drug-like compounds from existing databases against models of Zika protein structures (and also against structures of proteins from related viruses, including West Nile Virus and Dengue). These computational results will be shared quickly with the research community and general public, with compounds showing the most promise then tested in laboratory settings.

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While you sleep, your laptop could be helping to find a treatment for the Zika virus, says a Rutgers researcher who has been tapped to oversee a worldwide computer project.

The World Community Grid, sponsored by IBM, uses the idle “screensaver” time on more than three million computers – both private and institutional – to narrow down treatment prospects.

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Scientists at Rutgers are playing a role in the search for a cure for the Zika virus, and they’re seeking the public’s help.

Alex Perryman, a research teaching specialist at Rutgers’ New Jersey Medical School, and Joel Freundlich, associate professor of pharmacology and physiology and medicine, are part of a supercomputing project that screens current drugs and millions of drug-like compounds against models of Zika protein structures.

The results will be shared with the research community and the general public. The compounds that show the most promise will then be tested in laboratory settings.