COVID-19 – BALANCED Media|Technology https://www.balancedmediatechnology.com BALANCED Media|Technology Mon, 06 Jul 2020 19:29:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 147391540 You made a difference. Here is the proof! https://www.balancedmediatechnology.com/you-made-a-difference-here-is-the-proof/ Tue, 19 May 2020 13:30:34 +0000 https://www.balancedmediatechnology.com/?p=10523 Testing our first set of compounds, we were looking to see if we could find any that were capable of binding over the “spike protein”.  This protein is what allows the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 to interact with the lungs and inject its genetic material and wreak havoc on our bodies (visualized here). 

Compound match to COVID-19 protein spike

Well, everyone with HEWMEN Cell installed helped us find our very first compound that fits perfectly over the spike protein.  The picture shows the compound we all found (white red and teal) attached to the spike protein (blue).  The compound itself is too potent to be used in large quantities in the body, but it is validation that our efforts matter and we can find compounds that can actually reduce the damage that COVID-19 is causing in our bodies.

Finding these types of compounds helps us refine our search and understand more about how to fight the virus.  The more we find, the better we understand the virus, and we can use that information to help narrow our search to find compounds that will help treat COVID-19 and prevent the devastating effects it can have on the body.

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Today marks the day we come together as a community to form a virtual supercomputer to test approved drug compounds against the COVID-19 virus and find a treatment that can start helping people faster. Thank you for joining the effort!

BALANCED has partnered with Complexity Gaming to announce HEWMEN Cell, a new crowdsourcing effort to find treatments to fight the COVID-19 virus. The HEWMEN Cell app processes information from more than 200,000 FDA-approved existing compounds against functions of COVID-19 to find an effective way to reduce the virus’s pathology.

Leading esports team and sponsor, Complexity, is urging the gaming community to support the effort by downloading the HEWMEN Cell application. By participating, volunteers contribute their computers’ unused processing capacity to a secure grid network as a resource for simulation attempts to reduce the effects of COVID-19. These simulations will identify a docking compound with the highest probability of success and speed up treatment development.

The HEWMEN Cell app also gathers data as players interact with the games, which provide human insight and intuition to the process as they help to solve complex problems. Online gamers answer the call for aid in a search for medical treatment by participating in the HEWMEN Cell project. As BALANCED brings purpose to play, gamers answer the call to participate in a unified effort to wipe out COVID-19.

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