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From Pac-Man to Pac-mecium and beyond

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Caren B. Les, [email protected]

Someday, perhaps in the not-too-distant future, Internet users may be able to immerse themselves in biology-based action video games that double as research experiments. While having fun and escaping the rigors of science, these players-as-crowd-source could make substantial contributions to biological discovery. In a laboratory at Stanford University in California, physicist Ingmar H. Riedel-Kruse and his colleagues have developed video games to help people experience in a playful way – and in real time – the behavior of primitive life forms such as paramecia and single-cell...Read full article

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    Published: March 2011
    AmericasbioethicsBiophotonicsbiotechnologybiotic gamescameraschemicalscrowdsourcingImagingIngmar Riedel-KrusemoleculesPac-ManPac-MeciumparameciaparameciumPCRpolymerase chain reactionPostscriptssingle-cell organismsStanford Universityvideo games

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