Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic Edition

Gaming for a Cause


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Gamers unite! You can join forces with some of the best minds in research as they try to find a cure to the new coronavirus. Folding@home lets researchers borrow the processing power of your computer, allowing them to run simulations to figure out the structure of proteins within coronavirus. Their goal? A “cryptic binding site” that will hopefully be the key to shutthing this virus down.For more information, click here (http://foldingathome.org/covid19/).
Folding@home can be downloaded here (http://foldingathome.org/start-folding/).
And follow the team on Twitter: @foldingathome (http://https//twitter.com/foldingathome) and @drGregBowman (https://twitter.com/drgregbowman?lang=en)Written and reported by Kellen Kartub, Ph.D. based on an interview with Professor Greg Bowman.
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Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic EditionBy Sandra Tsing Loh

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