Ok, maybe its a slight exageration, but still its a major 10
year old medical puzzle with major implications into a potential
aids cure someday. Anyways world, this makes us even for the
percieved "video games cause people to turn into deranged
homicidal rampage killers" problem, ok? By Alan Boyle Video-game
players have solved a molecular puzzle that stumped scientists
for years, and those scientists say the accomplishment could
point the way to crowdsourced cures for AIDS and other diseases.
"This is one small piece of the puzzle in being able to help
with AIDS," Firas Khatib, a biochemist at the University of
Washington, told me. Khatib is the lead author of a research
paper on the project, published today by Nature Structural &
Molecular Biology. The feat, which was accomplished using a
collaborative online game called Foldit, is also one giant leap
for citizen science — a burgeoning field that enlists Internet
users to look for alien planets, decipher ancient texts and do
other scientific tasks that shee