Foldit, which makes protein folding into an immersive online game playable by the general public, has helped discover information with implications for the design of better AIDs drugs. The ...

(CBS/AP) Online gaming is fun but not a productive use of time, right? Not so fast. Online gamers have deciphered the molecular structure of a key protein that retroviruses like HIV/AIDS need to ...

In 2008, University of Washington scientists released the game Foldit, hoping a sort of critical mass of gamers would mess around with proteins and, in the process, uncover some of their intrigue. (We ...

Leave it to video gamers to find a better way to shepherd proteins into their optimal three-dimensional shapes. Plying a freely available game and matched against automated computer routines designed ...

The problem of calculating the way proteins fold is one that requires immense computational power, but can be helped along by humanity’s innate ability to solve 3D ...

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Two years ago students and instructors from the University of Washington applied human intuition to the problem of protein folding with the game FoldIt. Since then the game has proven that even ...

Since October, 2000 the Folding@home project has been used to understand protein folding. Scientists know the pieces that make up a protein but cannot predict how those parts fit together into a 3-D ...

Almost 60,000 people around the world have played Foldit, a game much like Tetris that involves folding proteins to tackle problems in medicine such as disabling the flu virus. Elizabeth Armstrong ...

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Several vaccines are already in the pipeline to counter the devastating threat posed by the Ebola virus in Africa, but game players are using a collaborative puzzle program called Foldit to help look ...