MGC@Home Project
The aim of MGC@Home is the study of meningococcal C (Neisseria meningitidis), which is, with Haemophilius Influenzae of B type, the bacterium that causes the feared meningitis, as well as other serious illnesses such as sepsis. Meningococcal can cause irreversible damage or even death.
Its transmission is very simple, just via nasal secretions, saliva, sneezing or coughing of carriers, or as simple as kissing a friend or sharing a beer with friends in a pub. We have been protected So far thanks to vaccines taken at 2, 4, 6 and 18 months that prevents the bacterium from spreading.
However, it has been recently found that the effect of the vaccine (that determined the vaccination strategy above) was not as expected because it is very dependent on the age when it is applied, which leads to two questions much interest today:
First, the vaccine effect is small in adolescents, an age especially critical;
and second, this forces us to consider new vaccination strategies.
Hello,
I’d like to participate in this Project as it get’s online for the public. Please send me an Invitation Code, and I’ll throw my Machine in.
Thanks and Regards
aendgraend
Once the project is ready for beta test, it will be announced here. Thank you for your support.
G’Day Javier,
I saw you mention this project Meningococo@home on Idealogias@home, and that you are working on this project and Neurona@home.
It is a very worthwhile project and I am interested in helping.
It appears to have been getting organised for a while now so I was wondering when do you expect to start project and go public ??
Thanks
Conan
Hello,
I’d like to participate in this Project as it get’s online for the public. Please send me an Invitation Code, and I’ll throw my Machine in.
Thanks and Regards
André Helderweirt
Belgium
Thanks for your interest, Conan.
We are currently working in the development of the Meningococo algorithm, found some problems so launch will be delayed some weeks, but would like to have it online before end of this year.
hola, estaria muy interesado en participar en este proyecto ya que yo e padecido esa meningitis y por suerte estoy aqui para contarlo, me gustaria poder contribuir a la causa.
Un saludo
Hello,
I’d like to participate in this Project as it get’s online for the public. Please send me an Invitation Code, and I’ll throw my Machine in.
Thanks and Regards
Gracias por tu interés. Cuando el proyecto esté en marcha te avisaremos.