Five articles about citizen science games on Discover Magazine

1. The Computer Game That Could Cure HIV, May 12, 2008

A research team at the University of Washington has created a video game called Foldit, which challenges dexterous gamers to fold protein strands according to the actual laws of physics.
Melissa Lafsky

2. Guilt-Free Procrastination: This Online Game Could Cure Genetic Diseases, November 30, 2010

A new online game called Phylo is harnessing the power of idle brains on the Internet–asking any and all to help align genomic sequences.
Jennifer Welsh

3. Nanocrafter: Playing a Game of Synthetic Biology, February 22, 2015

On its surface, Nanocrafter looks like just another science puzzle game. In reality, the game is part of a broader goal to enable non-scientists to contribute to synthetic biology research.
Carolyn Graybeal

4. How Citizen Science is Helping Us Cross the Quantum Computing Barrier, April 13, 2016

The story of his citizen science project, Quantum Moves, began at the Max Planck Institute in Garching, Munich where he was a post-doctoral. Along with his colleagues, he was working on an experimental system that could manipulate individual atoms, a fundamental requirement of creating a quantum computer.Arvind Suresh

5. Stall Catchers: A Citizen Science Game to Combat Alzheimer’s, October 1, 2016

Some of you have been keen to hear more news about the project to fight Alzheimer’s – EyesOnALZ (formerly known as WeCureALZ), which we introduced in the earlier posts of this series. And guess what – we have big news to tell! And a brand new citizen science game to invite you to! Don’t worry if you’re hearing about the project for the first time though – we will tell you all about it!Egle Marija Ramanauskaite