Want to make a real contribution to science?  Don’t have the time to get a degree in Human Genetics?  Want to let your significant other know that all of that time playing video games isn’t a waste?  Well then Massively Multiplayer Online Science might be just the thing for you.

As part of EVE Online, Project Discovery was developed to help with the Human Protein Atlas, an effort to catalogue proteins and the genes that encode them.  Check out this article in the New Yorker about this amazing project.  Become a citizen scientist, all in the comfort of your own couch.

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