Gaming Cancer - How Building and Playing Video Games Can Accelerate Scientific

Can experimenting with game design increase our chances of finding a cure for cancer?

Cancer is crafty, forcing us to be just as clever in our efforts to outfox it—and we’ve made excellent progress, but is it time for a new play in the playbook? In
Gamers have already used “serious games” to discover new galaxies, digitize ancient texts, decode viruses, and solve theoretical problems in neuroscience. Cancer is a multi-layered threat, and our best bet at overcoming it is via more minds working in concert.
This book offers anyone invested in beating this seemingly intractable disease a concrete playbook that combines real science with creative vision to defeat the boss monster, cancer.

Product details

• Authors: Jeff Yoshimi
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.02.2025
• EAN: 9780262550727
• ISBN: 978-0-262-55072-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 14 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > General, dictionaries; SCIENCE / Research & Methodology, SCIENCE / Ethics, Information technology: general issues, GAMES & ACTIVITIES / Video & Mobile, Computer games / online games: strategy guides