Gamers Solve Real World Retrovirus Enzyme Secret

[Guest]

Video gamers may have opened the door a new AIDS drug. Researchers at the University of Washington challenged gamers to play Foldit and come up with the structure of a retrovirus enzyme - a task scientists could not solve over more than a decade.

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[nebun]

wait....we got it all wrong....where are the lawyers???

 

[kikireeki]

Now who was saying that PC is dying?

 

[drwho1]

how much did this gamers got paid for their 3 weeks of hard work?

 

[Supertrek32]

Gamers:
Fighting AIDS, zombies, and AIDS zombies.

 

[Guest]

wow old news travels fast!!!

 

[bunz_of_steel]

Lets see this make headline news!

Oh yeh.. no big hot shot celeb or politician to glamorize and exploit for $$

TSM

 

[iamboristhespider]

This is the best news story I've heard in a very long time. Foldit and Folding@home are some of the most ingenious research methods I've seen

 

[Guest]

Proof once again that one person can accomplish some greatness (for the most part), but many people, working together, with the right motivation can truly move mountains!

Great work!

 

[blubbey]

[citation][nom]tom_@[/nom]Proof once again that one person can accomplish some greatness (for the most part), but many people, working together, with the right motivation can truly move mountains!Great work![/citation]

Damn right. Not much a couple million people working on something can't solve.

 

[COLGeek]

[citation][nom]bunz_of_steel[/nom]Lets see this make headline news! Oh yeh.. no big hot shot celeb or politician to glamorize and exploit for $$TSM[/citation]
It already did a couple fo days ago....

 

[COLGeek]

Distributed computer and a few smart guys (the gamers in the story) can do some amazing things. This is cool stuff. Think of the possibilities to harness this power to solve other problems.....

 

[Goldengoose]

[citation][nom]COLGeek[/nom]Distributed computer and a few smart guys (the gamers in the story) can do some amazing things. This is cool stuff. Think of the possibilities to harness this power to solve other problems.....[/citation]

Like why people keep buying apple products...

 

[watcha]

[citation][nom]GoldenGoose[/nom]Like why people keep buying apple products...[/citation]

Like why people keep crying about people buying the most popular products...

 

[Guest]

this is the correct way to crowd source, folding@home was just a brute force method trying to crunchy every possible combination, this uses the cognitive capabilities of users to solve the problem, participation was probably significantly smaller than a folding@home cluster because it required active participation but achieved results much faster than expected (that was some dedication considering this would be closer to your Tetris than CoD affair)

 

[Kelavarus]

What, no one's going to point out that this is exactly what Stargate Universe proposed?

 

[dread_cthulhu]

Very Nice!

 

[CaedenV]

[citation][nom]watcha[/nom]Like why people keep crying about people buying the most popular products...[/citation]
When you break it down by market share mac products are hardly the most popular with the exception of the iPod/iPhone, and the iPhone has been getting crowded out lately.
[citation][nom]Kelavarus[/nom]What, no one's going to point out that this is exactly what Stargate Universe proposed?[/citation]
Woot!

 

[Zagen30]

[citation][nom]RealCrowdSource[/nom]this is the correct way to crowd source, folding@home was just a brute force method trying to crunchy every possible combination, this uses the cognitive capabilities of users to solve the problem, participation was probably significantly smaller than a folding@home cluster because it required active participation but achieved results much faster than expected (that was some dedication considering this would be closer to your Tetris than CoD affair)[/citation]

F@h still is going strong. And Foldit (and by extension Rosetta@home, of which Foldit is an offshoot) and F@h target different things. Foldit is trying to find a correct structure. F@h finds out how correct structures get to that configuration and why they might end up as a different structure.

 

[NightLight]

so , gamers actually contribute to preventing aids twice. once because they usually don't have girfriends, and twice because of this 😛