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Puget Sound Business Journal
Date: Monday, September 19, 2011, 4:53am PDT
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researchers have teamed up with gamers to make a breakthrough in AIDS
research that could unlock new drug treatments.
TechFlash reports the game at the center of the breakthrough is Foldit, an
online game that lets players collaborate and compete in predicting the
structure of protein molecules. Playing Foldit, gamers helped researchers
solve a problem that has stumped them for more than a decade: How to
configurate the structure of a retrovirus enzyme related to AIDS. UW
researchers say this is the first time they are aware that researchers have
tapped into the expertise of games to solver a long-standing scientific
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