Dementia researchers have developed a video game that could lead to the development of early diagnostic tests for the disease. The way players navigate the 3D levels in Sea Hero Quest will be anonymously tracked […]
You can do your bit to help with dementia research right now. Just download and play Sea Hero Quest on your smartphone. Researchers at University College London are collecting data on how brains navigate, according […]
At his laboratory console, Rhiju Das is making a game of a pressing public-health problem. He is recruiting thousands of videogamers to develop a better test for tuberculosis, which infects about one-third of the world’s […]
Though it’s the world’s top infectious killer, tuberculosis is surprisingly tricky to diagnose. Scientists think that video gamers can help them create a better diagnostic test. An online puzzle released Monday will see whether the […]
How Eve Online players are helping medical science The Human Protein Atlas is a scientific research program whose goal is to map the human proteome. With this information medical science can better explain the biological […]
What do physicists do when they can’t solve a bunch of complicated problems in quantum mechanics? They give the task to gamers. Danish physicists and researchers at Aarhus University in Denmark have developed a new […]
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