Fraxinus crowdsources scientific research on Facebook

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Flash game developer Team Cooper has partnered with The Sainsbury Laboratory to create a new Facebook game with a greater purpose than just having fun. The game is called Fraxinus, and it uses Facebook gamers to crowdsource scientific research for the Open Ash Die Back project.

The project looks to examine and even stop a deadly Chalara fungus that is killing a large amount of ash trees in the UK, with players being challenged to manipulate and match genetic data sets taken directly from the trees in the real world.

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