April 10, 2001 - Finding a Cure for Cancer | WebReference

April 10, 2001 - Finding a Cure for Cancer

Yehuda Shiran April 10, 2001
Finding a Cure for Cancer
Tips: April 2001

Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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The United Devices cancer research program sponsored by Intel has been developed specifically to search for new drugs to treat leukemia. United Devices Inc. developed this program in conjunction with the National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR) and the University of Oxford.

You can take part in a new ground-breaking Internet-based collaborative medical research project by lending your PC's unused resources to the greater good. There's no cost to download and run the program and there's no noticeable impact on your computer's performance, because the program takes advantage of the processing power you're not using at the time.

If you're reading this tip, chances are you're writing Web pages for others to view. Therefore, you've got the ability to contribute not only your own PC's processing power, but also the power of millions of other PCs. All you have to do is include the following JavaScript snippet in your HTML code, wherever you want the link to appear:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!--
document.write('<A HREF="https://intelcure.speedera.net/www.intel.com/cure/download/',
(navigator.userAgent.indexOf("95") != -1) ? "Intel_UD_Research_win95.exe" : "Intel_UD_Research_win32.exe",
'">Lend your PC\'s unused resources</A> to accelerate the development of improved treatments and drugs that could potentially cure cancer.');
// -->
</SCRIPT>

Here is how the link will look like: