We finally have some news to report about the initial set of coronavirus Spike binders designed by Foldit players! In this video, we also share exciting progress from the researchers at the Institute for Protein Design.

NEWS
• Foldit Education Mode is live! [0:33]
• COVID Spike binder results [1:13]
• More Spike binder news [1:40]

The PREPRINT:  https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.03.234914
More details on the Foldit blog: https://fold.it/portal/node/2010253

PUZZLE UPDATES
• New binder design metrics are ssllooww [4:02]
• Symmetric puzzles are back in the mix [4:55]

DESIGN OF THE MONTH
• A sweet trimer with a buried edge created by grogar7

This video features Foldit scientist Brian Koepnick, PhD. It was produced by Ian Haydon.

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