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===Say No to Schistosoma=== '''Say No to Schistosoma''' (launched February 22, 2012<ref name="Say No to Schistosoma Project-WCG" />) was the 20th research project to be launched on World Community Grid. The researchers at [[Infórium University]] in [[Belo Horizonte]] and [[FIOCRUZ-Minas]], [[Brazil]], ran this project on World Community Grid to perform computer simulations of the interactions between millions of chemical compounds and certain target proteins in the hope of finding effective treatments for [[schistosomiasis]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/viewNewsArticle.do?articleId=194 |title=Say No to Schistosoma |work=Research |publisher=World Community Grid |access-date=2012-05-24 |archive-date=2012-04-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120406110301/http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/viewNewsArticle.do?articleId=194 |url-status=live }}</ref> As of April 2015, subsequent analysis had been performed, and three of the most promising candidate substances had been identified for in-vitro testing.<ref name="secure.worldcommunitygrid.org" />
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