Playing This Free Game Might Help Find a Coronavirus Vaccine

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https://lifehacker.com/playing-this-free-game-might-help-find-a-coronavirus-cu-1842125612

Want to help researchers understand and find a vaccine for the coronavirus? Help them out by playing this video game.

Foldit is a free puzzle game that tasks players with folding protein chains to change the way they behave. It was originally created by developers at the University of Washington in 2008 to crowd-source potential cures for diseases like Alzheimer’s and HIV/AIDS, but a new coronavirus puzzle was added this week. Players will need to create or modify proteins that can bind to one of the coronavirus “spike proteins” that would then prevent it from infecting human cells and replicating...

https://fold.it/portal/

*NOTE* This is NOT Folding@Home. This is an entirely different project. This isn't about accessing your computer's idle processor power to solve problems. All you have to do is pull and shake and slide thingies in the window and if you do it right, you gain points and move up levels. You do have to create an account to play online though.

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