Gaming For A Cure The understanding of such diseases as Alzheimer’s, cancer and diabetes has greatly advanced by thousands of online gamers in recent years due to an online flash game named Phylo. Created by Dr. Jerome Waldispuhl of the McGill Centre for BioInformatics along with collaborator Mathieu Blanchette, Phylo is a unique video game all in itself. In the game, users solve multiple sequence alignments in comparative genomics while leveraging the skill of gamers Read more …