Video gamers help crack AIDS enzyme

[TheodoreK]

A decade-old biomolecular puzzle has been recently solved by online gamers!

Here's one article about that tricky enzyme and how video gamers helped cracking it:
http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged...161920724.html

I wonder how many things can be achieved while people are having fun, and probably do not know/care about the actually effect the games they are playing have in the world.

[JJMcClure]

To the astonishment of the scientists, the gamers produced an accurate model of the enzyme in just three weeks.

lawlz, 1337 gaming ftw!