Now if that sounds fall-asleep-on-your-keyboard boring, consider that you may end up doing some good. Scientists will actually test some of the proteins that players develop to see if they could be used in new drugs. In the game, which you can access here, you start out with a few practice levels in which you learn the basics of protein folding, then graduate to real proteins. “We’re hopefully going to change the way science is done, and who it’s done by,” says Zoran Popovic of the University of Washington. “Our ultimate goal is to have ordinary people play the game and eventually be candidates for winning the Nobel Prize.” Try doing that with Scrabulous. [Via Medgadget]
