New game sets its sights on helping to cure cancer. Researchers say "results have been up to 15 percent more accurate."
Play to Cure: Genes in Space takes the long process of analysing genetic data linked to cancer growth and turns it into a game. Dave Cook speaks with developer Guerilla Tea to better understand how this sci-fi title could very well save your life one day.
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Cancer Research UK has launched a free smartphone game that will use your path through levels to help analyse medical data.
Isn't this what was once on the PS3? I believe it was called Folding@home? Great Idea and well worth participating.
No, Folding At Home wasn't a game. It was just using PS3's to basically render out things until they found "folds" creating cancer cells.
I am actually surprised more research/problems ect aren't done by trying this approach of course it would have to be on a case by case basis.
Tedtalks described something similar albeit not cancer research i believe a yr or 2 ago. Why not put those idle minds to some problem solving use.
