UK Charity to Build Mobile App to Crowdsource Cancer Cure

A UK-based charity, Cancer Research UK, announced that it will create “a damn good [mobile] game,” its second title focused on understanding cancer by using crowdsourced citizen science.

Partnering with Google, Facebook and Amazon, Cancer Research UK held a hackathon in March to gamify the dull yet crucial pattern recognition technique needed to sort through the enormous amount of data they collected. Computer algorithms are not as efficient at this particular task, whereas the human eye naturally excels at finding similarity in images.