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lightcastle) wrote2011-09-19 04:34 pm
lightcastle) wrote2011-09-19 04:34 pm
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Better Science Through Playtime
Humans playing an online game have untangled the structure of a key protein in the virus that causes AIDS, a protein causing AIDS in rhesus monkeys
that hadn't been solved for 15 years was resolved and confirmed by x-ray crystallography.
The game is called Foldit, I am sad I didn't already know about it, and this is their second paper published in Nature.
Go Team Science.
that hadn't been solved for 15 years was resolved and confirmed by x-ray crystallography.
The game is called Foldit, I am sad I didn't already know about it, and this is their second paper published in Nature.
Go Team Science.