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Crowdsourcing tool tapped to spot malaria
Designed at UCLA with the non-scientist in mind, a game allows players to separate healthy from infected blood cells to diagnose malaria.
Video gamers unravel drug discovery riddles
Foldit, the online video game in which players puzzle out protein structures, is now challenging them to work on tasks related to the design of protein drugs.
Gamers tackle enzyme makeover, beat scientists' efforts
Online players of the video game Foldit have notched another first. With a bit of guidance, the players were able to redesign an enzyme and improve its potency, and it's the first time crowdsourcing
Gamers illustrate potential of new crowd-sourcing protein work
One of the most intriguing new developments in the drug discovery field has been the recruitment of gamers into the puzzling business of protein folding. Now an initial foray into simple puzzle
Video gamers shed new light on 521 disease genes
We live in a time when just about anyone with a computer and web connection can participate in disease research via online video games. About a year after the release of a game of this kind called
Foldit strategies uncovered, spotlights open R&D breakthrough
Foldit deserves its own chapter in the ongoing saga about the open R&D movement in life sciences. And if you had any doubts before-- even after players of the online protein-folding game cracked...
Creator of video game Foldit talks about making proteins 'toy-like'
There's been a tremendous amount of interest in making video games tools for learning rather than distractions from homework. But how does one get youths as riveted to a video game about...
Video gamers uncover AIDS drug targets
Don't be too quick to dismiss video games as a waste of time. Players of the online science game Foldit have pieced together the structure of an enzyme that could provide new targets for AIDS
Social media multiply R&D input
Two recent research efforts highlight the potential of nontraditional computing advances on drug discovery and development. They illustrate alternative uses of social networks for data generation and
