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The Project: Rosetta@Home
We chose Rosetta@Home because in our opinion is the project that does research in some of the studies in which she had taken part, like the NGF: Nerve Growth Factor.
In an interview for the italian version of Wired for her 100 birthday she said:" the NGF is more than a simple protein.Is a vital protein.Without her life simply stops.We Established that the administration of NGF on mice block the progress of Alzheimer.The NGF can be helpful in the cure of other diseases like Parkinson and the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)".
At this time Rosetta@home is collaborating with a research group at UCLA that studies Alzheimer's disease.
So the choice was not been difficult, and Rosetta@Home is the official project of the Challenge.