{"id":103550,"date":"2020-03-10T07:02:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T14:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/university-of-washington-coronavirus-puzzle-game-aims-to-crowdsource-a-cure"},"modified":"2020-03-10T07:02:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T14:02:29","slug":"university-of-washington-coronavirus-puzzle-game-aims-to-crowdsource-a-cure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/university-of-washington-coronavirus-puzzle-game-aims-to-crowdsource-a-cure","title":{"rendered":"University of Washington coronavirus puzzle game aims to crowdsource a cure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/university-of-washington-coronavirus-puzzle-game-aims-to-crowdsource-a-cure2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Foldit is crowdsourcing a cure and needs lots new players. All Transhumanist should participate.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The University of Washington is taking a <a href=\"https:\/\/fold.it\/portal\/node\/2008926\">novel approach<\/a> to combat the spread of coronavirus around the world.<\/p>\n<p>A new puzzle game from the university challenges scientists and the public alike to build a protein that could block the virus from infiltrating human cells. The game is on <a href=\"https:\/\/fold.it\/portal\/info\/about\">Foldit<\/a>, a 12-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engr.washington.edu\/news\/trend\/aut10_foldit.html\">website created by the university\u2019s Center for Game Science<\/a> designed to crowdsource contributions to important protein research from more than 200,000 registered players.<\/p>\n<p>The most promising ideas generated by the game will be tested and possibly manufactured by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipd.uw.edu\/\">UW\u2019s Institute for Protein Design<\/a> in Seattle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foldit is crowdsourcing a cure and needs lots new players. All Transhumanist should participate. The University of Washington is taking a novel approach to combat the spread of coronavirus around the world. A new puzzle game from the university challenges scientists and the public alike to build a protein that could block the virus from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1509,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-entertainment","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}