Gamers can now join hunt for cancer cure
by The Daily Eye Team February 7 2014, 1:20 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 27 secsLONDON: Gaming enthusiasts across the world can from Tuesday join the search for cancer cures with a citizen science project using a smartphone game to help researchers analyse vast volumes of genetic data from tumour samples. Called ‘Play to Cure: Genes in Space’, the spaceship game is designed for smartphones and was launched by the charity Cancer Research UK (CRUK), which hopes it will speed up the decoding of data to reveal patterns of the genetic faults that cause cancers to grow and spread.