Stall Catchers
Stall Catchers is a citizen science application designed at Cornell University to search the brain for stalled blood vessels that may contribute to Alzheimer’s disease. While playing the game, you’ll be looking at real movies of live mouse brain. You will be given one vessel to annotate per movie, and will do so by searching for signs of blood flow or stalls. Stall Catchers is part of EyesOnALZ, a citizen science project from the Human Computation Institute.
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Articles
Online game turns web users of all ages into Alzheimer’s fighters
Thousands of internet users, of all ages, are playing an online game all around the world to help researchers fast track the fight against the Alzheimer’s disease. Stall Catchers, launched nearly a year ago, has […]
We are joining the first Stall Catchers competition to #CrushALZ
Scientists are searching for a cure for Alzheimer’s disease and we can help hands-on. Together with collaborators at Cornell, Berkeley, and Princeton, and with support from the BrightFocus Foundation, the Human Computation Institute has created […]
The Crowd & The Cloud – The first episode of the TV series features Stall Catchers
The Crowd & The Cloud is a TV series focusing on the power of “Citizen Science in the Digital Age,” with examples of projects that range from how crowdsourcing is speeding up Alzheimer’s research to […]
EyesOnALZ is 1! The year in review
One year ago, in January 2016, EyesOnALZ project officially kicked off! Which is why today is double special for us – it’s the beginning of the New Year AND the first Birthday of EyesOnALZ 😊🎆🎁 […]
Stall Catchers – The Crowd: our newest weapon in the fight against Alzheimer’s
The Crowd: our newest weapon in the fight against Alzheimer’s Alzheimer’s research breakthroughs cannot come fast enough, which is why we need approaches that break the rules and find new proactive ways to fight the […]
Five articles about citizen science games on Discover Magazine
1. The Computer Game That Could Cure HIV, May 12, 2008 2. Guilt-Free Procrastination: This Online Game Could Cure Genetic Diseases, November 30, 2010 3. Nanocrafter: Playing a Game of Synthetic Biology, February 22, 2015 […]
Interviews
Interview with Egle Marija Ramanauskaite (Stall Catchers) on storyengine.io
Finally, we’re bringing this awesome research to the public. A citizen science expert, science writer, and educator, Egle Marija is currently the citizen science coordinator for the Human Computation Institute, where she focuses on on […]