Gamers > Computers: My new podcast on crowdsourced biology

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By Carl Zimmer
Sep 24, 2010 8:20 PMNov 20, 2019 1:00 AM

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On my latest podcast, I talk to David Baker of the University of Washington about a remarkable new way of studying biology: turn a problem (protein-folding) into a game, and get 57,000 people to play. Check it out.

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