AIDS Puzzle Solved By Computer Gamers | TPM Idea Lab

Computer game skills could help save lives, and not just virtual ones.

As fanciful as it may sound at first, gamers on Foldit, a crowdsourced, online protein folding simulator from the University of Washington, actually managed to solve a longstanding problem in AIDS research that has vexed scientists for more than a decade. And they did so in about 10 days.