BioQuest

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Healing Wounds With Electricity

In this game, you’ll unlock these achievements:

  • Discover what DNA is made of
  • Understand why DNA is essential for life
  • Learn why DNA must replicate before a cell can divide

Helping Paralyzed People Walk Again

In this game, you’ll explore:

  • Stages of mitosis
  • How chromosomes behave
  • Why mitosis is important

Predicting Diseases Before They Start

In this game, you’ll learn about:

  • Meiosis I and II
  • Genetic variation
  • Gamete formation

How Do Cancer Cells Form?

In this game, you’ll unlock these achievements:

  • Discover that cancer starts with mutations in two key control genes
  • Understand that damage from UV, smoking, or viruses can trigger these mutations
  • Learn how uncontrolled cell division leads to tumour formation

How Does Alzheimer’s Disease Form?

In this game, you’ll unlock these achievements:

  • Discover how plaques and tangles damage brain cells in Alzheimer’s
  • Understand why age, genes, and lifestyle raise the risk
  • Learn how new AI tools can detect Alzheimer’s early

Healing the Brain Through the Gut

In this game, you’ll unlock these achievements:

  • Discover how the gut microbiome acts like a “second brain”
  • Understand how gut bacteria influence mood through neurotransmitters
  • Learn how diet and probiotics can improve mental health

Growing Human Organs in the Lab

In this game, you’ll unlock these achievements:

  • Discover how 3D bioprinters create living tissues using stem-cell bio-ink
  • Understand why bioprinted organs could end waiting lists forever
  • Learn how patient-specific printing prevents immune rejection

How Does Type 2 Diabetes Form?

In this game, you’ll unlock these achievements:

  • Discover how insulin helps cells absorb glucose
  • Understand how insulin resistance leads to Type 2 Diabetes
  • Learn about new tech like smart lenses and AI apps for glucose tracking

Organ Regeneration Using CRISPR and Stem Cells

In this game, you’ll unlock these achievements:

  • Discover how CRISPR edits stem cells to regenerate or create organs
  • Understand why lab-grown organs can match patients and reduce rejection
  • Learn how scientists guide stem cells to form functional tissues

Biosensors Woven into Your Clothes

In this game, you’ll unlock these achievements:

  • Discover how smart clothes use embedded biosensors to monitor health
  • Understand how real-time data can detect early signs of heart attacks or disease
  • Learn how wearable tech can send health alerts to your phone or doctor

Artificial Skin That Heals Like Magic

In this game, you’ll unlock these achievements:

  • Discover how artificial skin mimics real skin using biomaterials and living cells
  • Understand how it speeds healing, reduces grafts, and lowers infection risk
  • Learn how future designs could include sensors or drugs to aid regeneration

Smart Beads – Wakandan Tech Meets Real Medicine

In this game, you’ll unlock these achievements:

  • Discover how wearable jewelry can include tiny biosensors and drug dispensers
  • Understand how smart necklaces can monitor vitals or release medicine on demand
  • Learn how AI and wireless tech make stylish health tracking possible

Gene Switches – Turning Diseases On and Off

In this game, you’ll unlock these achievements:

  • Discover how synthetic gene circuits can detect diseases and respond automatically
  • Understand how programmable cells could replace constant medication
  • Learn how precision medicine uses your own DNA to fight illness only when needed

Digital Twins – A Virtual You for Real Medicine

In this game, you’ll unlock these achievements:

  • Discover how digital twins create virtual models of your body or organs
  • Understand how simulations can test treatments safely before using them on real patients
  • Learn how personal health data helps doctors predict outcomes and plan interventions

Rewriting Pain — Blocking Pain Signals with Light

In this game, you’ll unlock these achievements:

  • Discover how optogenetics uses light to control pain-sensing neurons
  • Understand how light can block pain signals without drugs
  • Learn how wearable devices could one day replace opioids for chronic pain

How Do Autoimmune Diseases Form?

In this game, you’ll unlock these achievements:

  • Discover how autoimmune diseases make the immune system attack healthy tissues
  • Understand the role of genetics, infections, gut health, and environment in triggering these diseases
  • Learn how new therapies aim to “retrain” the immune system to stop self-attacks

How Does Insomnia Form?

In this game, you’ll unlock these achievements:

  • Discover how insomnia keeps the brain stuck in “wake mode”
  • Understand how hormone imbalances and circadian rhythm disruption affect sleep
  • Learn how tech like sleep trackers and brainwave therapies can help reset sleep patterns

Beating Depression with Brain Implants

In this game, you’ll unlock these achievements:

  • Discover how deep brain stimulation uses electrodes to reset mood-related brain activity
  • Understand how DBS helps patients with severe, treatment-resistant depression
  • Learn how AI and smart devices could personalize brain stimulation in real time

How Does Addiction Form?

In this game, you’ll unlock these achievements:

  • Discover how addiction hijacks the brain’s dopamine reward system
  • Understand how tolerance and weakened decision control make stopping difficult
  • Learn about new tech like AI apps and brain stimulation to prevent relapse

How Does Allergy Form?

In this game, you’ll unlock these achievements:

  • Discover how the immune system mistakes harmless substances as threats
  • Understand how antibodies and histamine cause allergy symptoms
  • Learn about new treatments like peanut patches and gene editing to prevent allergies

Restoring Vision with Bionic Eyes

In this game, you’ll unlock these achievements:

  • Discover how bionic eyes convert visual information into brain signals
  • Understand how implants or smart glasses help restore partial vision
  • Learn how future systems could enhance vision with features like night vision or object recognition