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Gamers Redesign Protein That Stumped Scientists

Folding: it’s detestable and boring, as any Gap employee can tell you. But it’s also a totally fun thing you can do in a video game! And today it’s particularly exciting because players of the online game Foldit have redesigned a protein, and their work is published in the science journal Nature Biotechnology.

23 January 2009

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A Beautiful Sunset, Painted in Fluorescent Bacteria

This beach is awash in bacteria colonies that express eight different colours through fluorescent protein modification. And yes, that canvas is a petri dish. [Andrew Hires via MAKE]

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