Gaming for a Cause - a podcast by Sandra Tsing Loh

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.

Folding@home can be downloaded here.

And follow the team on Twitter: @foldingathome and @drGregBowmanWritten and reported by Kellen Kartub, Ph.D. based on an interview with Professor Greg Bowman.

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