Folding Home is an incredibly unique and useful app that allows users to donate their unused computing power to researchers who are trying to find cures for deadly diseases. It was developed at Stanford University as a way to lend extra computing power to researchers who need to run constant calculations related to proteins that they think are the key to finding cures to serious diseases. The app works by allowing it to run an extra browsing window when you are using the internet. You do not have to do anything else to let the calculations run effectively in the background.