CALIFORNIA- You may have got tired of hearing the debate regarding boon and the bane of mobile phones, but recently an interesting application has been developed for the Android users.
Through this app, your smartphone can help cure cancer. Taking the fight against cancer from the laboratory to the humble smartphone, DreamLab, an Android smartphone app, gives people the power to help fast track a cure for cancer while they sleep at night, researchers said.
DreamLab works by amalgamating the processing power of mobile devices to create a smartphone supercomputer for cancer research.
This in turn will help speed up research into breast, ovarian, prostate and pancreatic cancer, researchers said.
While a smartphone is plugged in and fully charged, the DreamLab app automatically downloads and solves a small cancer research problem, and then sends the result back to researchers via the Amazon cloud – like a giant crossword puzzle, with each user solving a different clue. DreamLab, developed by Vodafone Foundation and the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, not only provides free access to a crucial computing resource, it also has the potential to greatly speed up cancer research, the institute said.
With 100,000 users, researchers will be able to crunch data approximately 3,000 times faster than the current rate. With five million users, that increases to 150 thousand times faster than the current rate, researchers said.
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