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Try your hand at one of these exciting "nano games," courtesy of PlayGen's NanoMissiontm – the world's first scientifically accurate interactive 3D learning game based on understanding nanosciences and nanotechnology!
Click on a module's title or image to open and run the application.
NanoImaging Game Module
Dr. Goodlove and Lisa are in the science lab, as Lisa explains a serious environmental disaster heading to all fresh water lakes in the world. Dr. Goodlove suspects extremely small organisms created by Dr. Neevil are to blame and explains how a Scanning Electron Microscope can be used to identify them. The genetically modified algae is manifesting in huge blooms turning lakes red, toxic and fatal to humans and animals. Your mission is to identify this evil in order to develop a counter measure and save the world!
NanoScaling Game Module
The NanoMission scaling module lets you visualize and understand the spatial relationships between objects at all scales – from picometers through nanometers all the way up to gigameters. Using the 3D environment, you can scroll back and forth through a wide range of familiar and interesting objects, from a single hydrogen atom all the way up to the Sun. Information about the objects and visual measurement references are provided, as well as a Character mode where you can change your size and walk around to compare yourself with other objects of various sizes!
NanoMedicine Game Module
Medicines do not simply enter the body and wander around until they find something to cure. Getting compounds to their intended target is one of the biggest challenges for drug manufacturers. The human body is very sensitive to anything that it sees as a foreign body, and deals with such things very efficiently. One of the key applications of nanotechnologies is the ability to "hide" these compounds from the immune system – often by encapsulating them in a benign carrier, such as a liposome or vesicle – in order to deliver compounds to the site where they are needed, without the immune system or the body's other defense mechanisms neutralizing or altering the compound.
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