Gamers get to work on hard-to-treat tumours

• Autores: Hal Hodson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2934, 2013, pág. 21
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A new online game encourages people to play, fiddling with swarms of nanoparticles to come up with promising strategies for attacking tumors. The game, called NanoDoc, trains players on a few basic rules, including the types of nanoparticles in their arsenal and how they swarm through tissue to find cancerous cells. It then lets players try challenges, which feature real configurations of tumor cells, some of which researchers have yet to find an effective treatment for. The idea is that as crowds of online users chip away at these tough problems, they will find solutions researchers haven't thought of yet, leading to improved treatments.