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New tool in cancer research: Video gamesJuly 11: A video game called FoldIt is helping researchers at the University of Washington discover new proteins that can be used for anything from cancer research to genetic therapy.




Source: http://video.ca.msn.com/watch/video/new ... en-ca_tech

Good post crusty and a good way to help the research. I have been folding@home for a long time and fully support this effort. I am currently ranked 20,000 ish out of 1.6m world wide.

Hot Trout wrote: a good way to help the research. I have been folding@home for a long time and fully support this effort. I am currently ranked 20,000 ish out of 1.6m world wide.

damn, impressive rating worldwide. I just ran across the article yesterday.

Yep its not bad, current total folding points is just over 1.3 million.

I can't wait to throw this in my dad's face the next time he tries to tell me that video games are a waste of time and space and that they've never helped with anything and how that if all the gamers in the world focused on doing something productive instead of playing video games that the world would be a better place and we'd all be teleporting around and have flying cars like in Back to the Future. I can't wait to fucking throw this in his face.

Kherr wrote:I can't wait to throw this in my dad's face the next time he tries to tell me that video games are a waste of time and space and that they've never helped with anything and how that if all the gamers in the world focused on doing something productive instead of playing video games that the world would be a better place and we'd all be teleporting around and have flying cars like in Back to the Future. I can't wait to fucking throw this in his face.

LOL, that was a funny outburst Kherr, that made me laugh first thing this morning