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Jonazz
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FAH researching more diseases

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I've read the diseases page today and I noticed that last year two new diseases were added to the project (Chagas and Malaria). I was wondering, are you planning to add more and more diseases as computional power grows or using more resources on the same diseases? If you're planning on adding new diseases for research, which ones are the most likely to be chosen?

Also, I've noticed that quite some projects involve the flu and some papers have also been written on the flu, but influenza isn't mentioned on the diseaes page. Why is this?
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I am not from the PG and can not answer it fully, but as much I've read:
1. Models running on FAH must be relevant to the disease under study;
2. The PG members or associates should have relevant abilities related to that disease.

Both those constraints can and will be tackled over time and thus more related diseases or conditions are going to get FAH time.
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Hello.
I can't find any significant info about diabetes type 2 in FAH, except few projects that already aren't active. Are there some works with this desease now or not?
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To my knowledge, not. But I'm not part of PG. Most of my SMP projects have been about how influenza recognizes and infects cells, but I wish they would go into more detail...
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Post by 7im »

Hello McRobert, welcome to the forum.

xhuang just released 2 new projects dealing with Type 2 research to beta testing July 14th, 2011. You can read about it in the beta forum.

Hopefully, they will add a Diabetes section to the Diseases Studied FAQ soon.
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7im
Thanks, it will serve.
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