Gridget > PlayStation 3 accelerates medical research
[ Perfectly Reasonable Deviations] As Sony’s PlayStation 3 hits stores, gamers planning to battle it out with digital monsters can also face a real-world threat: disease. Researchers are appealing to players to donate use of their next-generation PlayStations during their downtime to study the formations of proteins involved in diseases.
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