It may not sound terribly exciting, but learning the structures of these complex proteins can help researchers find cures for major human diseases such as HIV, Cancer, Alzheimer's and Malaria.

它也许听起来没有那么刺激有趣，但是了解到这些复杂蛋白质的结构可以找到像HIV、癌症、老年痴呆症和疟疾这样的严重的人类疾病的治愈方法。

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It wasn’t a cure, only a remission; but for Farber it was the beginning of a dream of cures, of what one researcher called “a penicillin for cancer.”

这不是康复，而仅仅是减轻了病症。 但对法伯来说，这是治愈癌症梦想的开始，是被一位研究人员称为“治愈癌症的盘尼西林”的开始。

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But it is not going away: it is simply joining forces with similar distributed-computing projects on topics from climate models to cures for diseases.

但是它并非停止：它只是正式合并加入了类似的分布计算项目中从为疾病治疗到气候模型等广泛的计划。

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They could lead to cures but it will take a decade or more to play out.

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The immune system activator interleukin-2 helps 15% of advanced melanoma cases and cures a few, but it produces such devastating side effects that patients must be hospitalized.

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Biotechnology research promises to find cures for diseases, but it could also lead to people crafting real viruses the way teenagers create computer viruses now, Friedman says.

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