What's the point? Has any breakthroughs of any kind happened because of folding? Seems like a feel good -zero real effects kind of thing. My relatives keep dying of cancer however. I know ...Someday. Right? Blah blah blah. Show me some results.
1 result that I know of. We've helped contribute to global warming by running lots of old and inefficient hardware at 100% for years.
One of those papers sums it up nicely for me We applied methods developed and honed on Folding@home to Google Exacycle (Google’s massively parallel cloud resource — a lot like running Folding@home behind their firewall). The resources that Google donated to PG/Folding@home was pretty massive, allowing us to tackle a really significant and challenging problem in biology and drug design.