Your Smartphone Could Help Cure Cancer While You Sleep
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| Wired.co.uk |
A new app developed by Vodafone Australia and the Garvan Institute of Medical Research has promised to put your phone to amazing use overnight. When charging, the DreamLab app automatically downloads genetic sequencing profiles, crunches the numbers, and then sends them back to the Garvan Institute.
The collaboration and development has been three years in the making, and allows you to choose which types of cancer to support and how much data you would like to donate and this in turn will contribute to the solving of small problems that have a big impact on cancer research.
So much smartphone usage revolves solely around the user, so this innovative idea is a great way to use your phone in a way that can greatly benefit others. The best thing is, you don't even have to sacrifice the time you would be using on your phone normally, as DreamLab is an app intended to work when your phone is idle.
Other apps out there have used similar models to harness our
smartphone's power when not needed: Folding@Home also uses processing power in
"the search for groundbreaking cures for diseases such as Alzheimer's,
cancer and infectious diseases like Ebola", and SETI@Home even uses a
similar process in order to capture data about extraterrestrial intelligence.
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