SciStarter has hundreds of citizen science projects to choose from, and our more than 110,000 registered members participate in a diverse range of projects that match their individual interests and passions. But there are a few perennial favorites among our citizen science projects, and perhaps none more popular than the Alzheimer’s-fighting game Stall Catchers.
Run by researchers at the non-profit Human Computation Institute in New York, Stall Catchers asks volunteers to analyze videos of blood vessels in the brains of mice to find “stalls,” or blockages that are thought to contribute to Alzheimer’s disease.
For years now, the project has topped our list of the most-joined and most-contributed-to projects, and 2021 was no different. Along the way, Stall Catchers’ now more than 41,000 registered users have analyzed more than 12 million images, saving researchers countless hours of lab time and greatly speeding up Alzheimer’s research.
Pietro Michelucci, project leader for ...
