Gamers played a protein-folding game and solved an AIDS riddle that, well, stumped scientists for years. The gamers unlocked the key protein involved in the reproduction of HIV, scientists announced ...

Computer scientists and biochemists at the University of Washington two years ago launched an ambitious project harnessing the brainpower of computer gamers to solve medical problems. The game, Foldit ...

We show here that computer game players can build high-quality crystal structures. Introduction of a new feature into the computer game Foldit allows players to build and real-space refine structures ...

It was quickly taken up by the Foldit community as a credibility test on new protein shapes generated by the rebuild toolset. Its success in this role is far beyond anything I originally imagined or ...

SEATTLE — Researchers at the University of Washington that players of a computer game are making headway in finding a potential treatment for the coronavirus. It’s a free computer game called FoldIt.

(Nanowerk News) Proteins are essential in almost all biological processes. The three-dimensional shape of the protein, which is essential to its function, is determined by protein folding. Foldit, ...

The Pentagon's top tech research arm is reaching out to gaming community to help cure a blood infection that kills troops in battlefield hospitals every year. The disease is sepsis, a blood infection ...

"Citizen science" is a recent movement to get interested members of the public involved in scientific research. Participants—who may or may not have scientific training—can perform tasks that can't be ...

Crowdsourcing R&D thrives again in the online Foldit community. This time, a unit of the U.S. Department of Defense has challenged the Foldit video gamers to craft proteins in a virtual online setting ...