Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic Edition

Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic Edition


Gaming for a Cause

April 21, 2020

Gamers unite! You can join forces with some of the best minds in research as they try to find a cure to the new coronavirus. Folding@home lets researchers borrow the processing power of your computer, allowing them to run simulations to figure out the structure of proteins within coronavirus. Their goal? A “cryptic binding site” that will hopefully be the key to shutthing this virus down.

For more information, click here.


Folding@home can be downloaded here.


And follow the team on Twitter: @foldingathome and @drGregBowman

Written and reported by Kellen Kartub, Ph.D. based on an interview with Professor Greg Bowman.