Foldit: Solving Puzzles for Science (VIDEO)

University of Washington School of Medicine/UW Medicine

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How citizen scientists are designing brand new proteins using a puzzle-solving computer game and how they can play a role in creating novel applications for medicine and other fields: protein design researcher Brian Koepnik at the Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington, and Foldit player Susan Kleinfelter comment.

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