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Hey everyone! Sciren will be hosting office hour on Wednesday, November 15th at 1PM CST (https://timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html). He will be accompanied by two scientists, Fabian Liessmann (FaLi13) and Lorenz Beckmann, working on the CCFHV puzzle series. See y'all there!

Foldit Players are competing in CACHE!

Play Foldit and design drugs which inhibit the SARS-CoV-2 helicase enzyme. The CACHE competition organizers will test player designs alongside those found by professional drug designers. How well can citizen scientists do in designing new molecules?

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Foldit rmoretti Staff Lv 1 about 18 hours ago We're excited to announce that Foldit players have been selected to participate in the next Critical Assessment of Computational Hit-Finding Experiments (CACHE) challenge. CACHE CACHE was conceived by the Structural Genomics Consortium and Target 2035 as the eq...

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- Aflatoxin update!!!
- Aflatoxin loop prediction
- Two-sided interface design
- Binder design for CoV spike, IL6R, and MERS-CoV spike
- A trimer with a beta sheet interface, by CharlieFortsConscience--design of the Month sandbox puzzle.

Lab Report #14: Breaking down AFLATOXIN This month we have promising lab results from the aflatoxin project! Plus we are launching a new way you can help fight a coronavirus. 0:00 – intro 0:30 – NE...

In this month's Lab Report:

• New game play features
• New puzzles
• Design of the Month!

WATCH: https://youtu.be/sqTR-T01ExY

Hey all! Sending a big congrats to David Baker, Director of IPD, for this major achievement! (there's a little shoutout to Foldit in there--great work!)

David Baker awarded 2021 Breakthrough Prize – Institute for Protein Design September 10, 2020 David Baker awarded 2021 Breakthrough Prize The Breakthrough Prize Foundation today announced the winners of the 2021 Breakthrough Prize, recognizing an array of achievements in the Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics and Mathematics. The traditional gala award ceremony, attended b...

Hey everyone! Be sure to check out our latest newsletter!
https://fold.it/portal/node/2010106 -42786
And, with school back in session, don't forget to take a look at our new education mode!
https://fold.it/portal/node/2010077

Foldit Newsletters | Foldit Dev Josh here with your weekly Foldit update. This week the scientists shared LCB1 with us: a protein designed by the IPD that binds to the coronavirus spike protein to block viral infection. Bkoep talked about it more in this month's lab report. Check it out and learn how the scientists are tacklin...

Hey Foldit players! Be sure to check out our latest Blog post that shows the latest experiment results for coronavirus spike binders! https://fold.it/portal/node/2010253

Further information regarding this as well as puzzle updates, design of the month, and other news, can be found in the latest Lab Report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cgbe4CP3tjY

The Blog post and Lab Report both also discuss LCB1, a 100% successful binder designed at the IPD. More information on this can be found in the post and in the video. Additionally, you can explore LCB1 for yourself in the latest sandbox, here https://fold.it/portal/node/2010259

Lab Report #12: Coronavirus Spike Binder Results We finally have some news to report about the initial set of coronavirus Spike binders designed by Foldit players! In this video, we also share exciting prog...

Hey science educators! We've just launched a new tool for online learning. Foldit Education Mode is a fun, free way for students to explore essential concepts in protein biochemistry.

Check out this video for more information-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESvX8lYoRCM&feature=youtu.be

Additionally, take a look at our page on Foldit Education Mode to see how it can be helpful for your classroom! https://fold.it/portal/node/2010044

Please send questions over to [email protected]

Introducing Foldit Education Mode Foldit Education Mode is a free game that teaches students some of the essential concepts of protein biochemistry. Players learn science and have fun as they...

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Hey everyone! Check out our latest lab report!
Foldit players have helped scientists create a new way to design proteins! The new method uses MachineLearning, & Foldit gamers will be listed as authors Page facing up DNA Video game
FULL: https://youtu.be/ax4vDFuWBzs
Additionally, Bkoep mentions this blog post that would also be great to check out!
https://fold.it/portal/node/2010076

The energy landscape optimization paper The energy landscape optimization paper

Foldit announces Education Mode for learning biochemistry! Check out the blog (https://fold.it/portal/node/2010077) and our new Educator's page (https://fold.it/educator).
Please feel free to contact us with any questions at [email protected].

For Educators | Foldit Thank you for using Foldit in your classroom! These instructions will assist you in setting up your students to play Foldit. If you are planning to use Foldit for education, we'd appreciate you letting us know by dropping us an email at [email protected].