TIL In 2011, people playing Foldit, an online puzzle game about protein folding, resolved the structure of an enzyme that causes an Aids-like disease in monkeys. Researchers had been working on the problem for 13 years. The gamers solved it in three weeks.

http://researchschools.blogspot.com/2014/08/how-online-gamers-are-solving.html



Submitted January 31, 2015 at 06:04PM by kharbachay http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2uatdf/til_in_2011_people_playing_foldit_an_online/