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 ...

How gamers devised state-of-the-art algorithms playing Foldit, a protein-folding game that has advanced HIV, cancer, and Alzheimer's research. Elizabeth Armstrong Moore Elizabeth Armstrong Moore is ...

Researchers studying the nature of crowds playing Foldit called some strategies "shocking" in how well they mimicked some of the methods already used by protein scientists. Gamers made headlines in ...

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 ...

A small group of enthusiastic gamers on a site called Foldit recently solved the structure of a protein found in an AIDS-like monkey virus. The structure had stumped scientists for over a decade; the ...

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.

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 ...