Playing the Science Game

Could the person who finds the cure for cancer be a gamer? The creators of an online game that allows players to help scientists design new proteins with therapeutic properties hope so.

A protein has an elaborate, three-dimensional structure, and scientists who want to design new proteins from scratch face extremely complicated puzzles with only one correct answer. David Baker, a professor of biochemistry at the University of Washington, uses a computer algorithm based on trial and

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