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Gamers helping science #34417 01/08/09 12:27 PM
Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 433 Illinios doodlebug OP Member
OP doodlebug Member Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 433 Illinios	Saw this posted on another list or two. I know someone here (or a few someones) will enjoy this: http://fold.it/portal/ Here's an article about the game/research: http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2008/1003-gamers_saving_lives.htm Enjoy but don't become too addicted!

Re: Gamers helping science doodlebug #34422 01/08/09 12:32 PM
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inky Member I Joined: Oct 2008 Posts: 1,299	Thanks for sharing this. I loved this quote since DH has stayed up all night before playing HALO. Quote "You can get into work and say I stayed up all night -- [but] I wasn't playing Halo," says David Baker, Ph.D., a biochemist at the University of Washington in Seattle. "I was designing an HIV vaccine."

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