Is a birthday coming up? Anniversary? Do you like computer games? Biology? If you answered yes to the last two consider Foldit. Consider this- How does my game playing contribute to curing diseases? From the site:

We’re collecting data to find out if humans' pattern-recognition and puzzle-solving abilities make them more efficient than existing computer programs at pattern-folding tasks. If this turns out to be true, we can then teach human strategies to computers and fold proteins faster than ever!

This may be a more entertaining approach to protein folding than the prior blog on Stylus.

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