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CSM: Immune Attack Review

CSM writes: "The amount of scienctific knowledge passed on in IMMUNE ATTACK can seem daunting to adults: You need to transform a monocyte into a macrophage, mark C3a chemical trails, target pseudomonas, releases CXCL8 signals to summon a neutrophil, and so on. It sounds like the kind of overly-technical gibberish that would immediately turn kids off. But that's only because we are adults. Kids love overly-technical sounding gibberish. If we heard kids talking about adding Bulbasaur to their Pokédex and evolving a Charmander into a Charizard, we might think the same thing, but that's just Pokémon."

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Free first-person shooter teaches about chemistry, biology

From Gamertell:

"The inner workings of our bodies are extraordinary processes and one of the most amazing is the way in which the body fends off harmful organisms. With this in mind, the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) has created a video game that turns these biological processes into a first-person shooter.

The free, downloadable PC game called Immune Attack puts players in charge of helping a patient fight off an infection."

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