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This week's top stories include a push for a stronger focus on population health to improve health disparities, a drop in hospital admissions, and Borderlands 3's use of its millions of gamers to help map the human gut microbiome.
Gearbox Studios CEO Randy Pitchford and videogame science company MMOS cofounder Attila Szantner discuss the design and deployment decisions that drew 1.6 million players to their gene sequencing alignment puzzle game, and how "citizen science" games can help advance data-driven research.