lsparrish comments on Open Thread, September 1-15, 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: lsparrish 01 September 2012 07:19:03PM 3 points [-]

I've just started playing with Foldit, a game that lets science harness your brain for protein folding problems. It has already been used to decode an HIV protein and find a better enzyme for catalyzing industrial processes. Currently, work is under way to design treatments for Sepsis.