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Video games are often blamed for time-wasting and violence, but there鈥檚 a group of people proving this stereotype wrong.

We meet the scientists behind a game designed to speed up finding a treatment for Alzheimer鈥檚 disease, and we speak to a teenager who plays it because 鈥渋t鈥檚 something I can do to help people in my spare time鈥�.

Citizen science projects like this have had some remarkable successes, and gamers have been credited with significant research such as figuring out the structure of a protein that shares similarities with HIV.

Fans of this model believe gaming has a huge part to play in the future of problem solving.

Produced by Kathleen Hawkins

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