Bitcoin Technology Brings Us Closer to Lung Cancer Cure

Crypto and blockchain technology helps lung cancer step closer to a cure.
Using Gridcoin’s processing power, researchers computed centuries worth of data.
This led to a breakthrough and proves the humanitarian use cases on blockchain power.

Crypto is helping make significant strides in the cancer cure research area. Just recently, the MCM team’s research into lung cancer biomarkers made a momentous discovery with the help of crypto and blockchain technology.

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According to an excited Redditor who shared this astounding news on the Reddit thread CryptoCurrency, this is a huge moment for crypto. Specifically, the Gridcoin project is the one to be associated with this research team.

In detail, the World Community Grid shares that the team was able to identify 26 new genes to be associated with lung cancer. The research team is using a volunteer research project that is working on mapping the connection between genes and health outcomes.

The mapping was made by computers of volunteers who are crunching billions of data points over many years. Almost every day, the project is said to burn over 240 years worth of computation, one a single computer. This requires a massive amount of computing power.

This is where the crypto community came in to assist. The World Community Grid is one of many projects incentivized by Gridcoin. In this chain, miners get paid in contributing their processing power to science projects over calculating hashes.

Besides this lung cancer research, Gridcoin miners are also helping contribute towards other projects besides the World Community Grid. To highlight, they are also assisting the research of Alzheimers and mapping pulsars. All this is thanks to the decentralized power from blockchain technology.

In fact, Gridcoin has been doing so since 2013 when they decided to contribute towards science instead of Bitcoin $ 66,103.71 -0.33%. This is one of the reasons behind the project’s longevity, active development team, and loyal user base. Indeed, a fantastic example of what blockchain and Bitcoin technology can do for humanity.

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