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Published online 20 July 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060717-15
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Wanted: computers for a humanitarian cause
Spare computing power tackles thorny questions in malaria.
Researchers want the help of your home computer for an urgent new mission: fighting malaria.
Malaria kills more than 1 million people every year, mostly young children in Africa.
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