If this news is true, that’s really cool.
Scientists had been struggling to map the structure of M-PMV, a protein involved in a virus that causes a form of simian Aids, in an experiment called CASP9. The search, in that experiment and others, had been going on for more than a decade. The solution was not found by a laboratory but the players of an online puzzle game.
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Beacouse the most cutting-edge computer is our brain.
Foldit is a revolutionary new computer game enabling you to contribute to important scientific research.
From what i read on the website, they present the player with a puzzle-game, they plan (if premises are true) to teach computers the human strategies to fold proteins faster than ever.
This proteins researches involves to help find a cure for cancer, hiv (aids) and alzheimer, as well as developing more efficient bio-fuel.
Link Fold.it (the game)
Link Folding AT Home (the distribuited processing calculations)
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