Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Students Can Help Cure Diseases While Playing A Video Game?

Apparently so. A crowd-sourced game-based effort to figure out how proteins
fold. You should definitely have students in your school who are interested
in biology take a look.

Here is the story:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129914162

Here is the game site: http://fold.it/portal/

Thanks to Alex Ragone for his tweet that brought FoldIt to my attention.

Fred

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Fred Bartels
Dir. of Info. Tech.
Rye Country Day School

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