Sunday, June 22, 2008 Better life in a game? POST A COMMENT Imagine an online science game that saves lives - fold.it -- might do just that! 'Knowing that -- "Proteins" are involved in all of the processes going on inside our body...from breaking down food to power your muscles, to sending signals through your brain that control the body through your blood...might not be all that exciting...but, how about designing new proteins using a computer game? Basically, "this could be a whole new way of doing science," says one expert...basically, online players -- using 3-D software...players "work on proteins of known shape or one (recently posted) of unknown structure..." Like farming the worlds science fair...the computer collects -- all the brain power from players...and will apply it to creating new synthesized proteins that can actually help us. Another example of sharing a brain...where the better players successes translate towards the research...that might actually help in creating new ways to treat viruses. Source: Seatle PI Labels: online games, protein, science 101 posted by Henry Cruz at 3:54 PM 0 Comments: Post a Comment << Home     ARCHIVES October 2005 . November 2005 . December 2005 . August 2007 . September 2007 . October 2007 . November 2007 . December 2007 . March 2008 . April 2008 . May 2008 . June 2008 . July 2008 . August 2008 . September 2008 .