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You don't have to be a scientist to do science! Download and play Foldit and you can help researchers discover new antiviral drugs that might stop coronavirus! The most promising solutions will be manufactured and tested at the University of Washington Institute for Protein Design in Seattle.

Foldit is run by academic research scientists. It is free to play and not-for-profit. To get started, download Foldit and create a username!

Originally Posted by Liam Mannix, Sydney Morning Herald

Stuck at home and feeling helpless in the face of a global pandemic?

You don’t need to be.

If you like solving puzzles, scientists want your help to start designing potential drugs to combat the coronavirus using a game you can play on your computer.

The citizen-science project, known as Foldit, hopes to start turning designs into actual drugs within a month.

Asking untrained people to design drugs sounds like pie in the sky. But the science behind the project is very real, independent researchers told The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.

“The lab behind it, led by Professor David Baker, is possibly the best equipped in the world to design a protein,” says Associate Professor Ashley Buckle, a protein engineer based at Monash University.

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SMH story :-
https://www.smh.com.au/national/this...30-p54fby.html