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Thursday, February 06, 2003
Smallpox Researchers Seek Help From Millions of Computer Users - STEVE LOHR, NY Times
Responding to worries that smallpox could become a weapon of bioterrorism, a group of research universities and corporations and the Defense Department are announcing today a networked computer project intended to accelerate the search for a cure for smallpox. The project is to use computing power contributed by a few million personal computer owners linked to the Internet worldwide to try to winnow the number of chemical compounds that might show promise in combating smallpox.
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