We’ve all heard the stories about young doctors, with plenty of computer-gaming hours behind them, wielding laparoscopic surgical tools with skill far beyond older, game-deficient peers. And the military adaptations of gaming engines to develop software-based training exercises. But this is about the most accessible game-to-real-world stuff I’ve heard of. Foldit purports to turn protein folding into a competitive sport. This Univeristy of Washington article compares Foldit to Tetris, a dinosaur fart of a game that my son’s discovered lately and seems to play quite well. Maybe he can get famous. Maybe you can, too.
Computer game’s high score could earn the Nobel Prize in medicine
