Video Gamers may help Biological Scientist cure AIDS

wdhpr · 20. Sep 2011, 12:22 AM

Something that every good video gamer has known all along. Solving the puzzle of how to decipher the structure of a retrovirus protein. "Piece of Cake"

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/0...sts-for-years/

Sope · 20. Sep 2011, 12:35 PM

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Originally Posted by wdhpr

Something that every good video gamer has known all along. Solving the puzzle of how to decipher the structure of a retrovirus protein. "Piece of Cake"

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/0...sts-for-years/

Very interesting.
I hope that in this case "the cake is not a lie"

wdhpr · 20. Sep 2011, 06:58 PM

Whats interesting to me is how someone can look at a problem in a totally different way and find the solution. I have witnessed this before.

Awgeewhiz · 20. Sep 2011, 07:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Sope

Very interesting.
I hope that in this case "the cake is not a lie"

"There is no cake."

OR

"You think that's cake you're eating?".

J_L · 24. Sep 2011, 03:42 AM

I've seen this kind of thing before with Folding@home.

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20. Sep 2011, 06:58 PM	#3 (permalink)
wdhpr Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: The north Coast Posts: 1,117	Whats interesting to me is how someone can look at a problem in a totally different way and find the solution. I have witnessed this before.

24. Sep 2011, 03:42 AM	#5 (permalink)
J_L Co-Author, Best Free Security List Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 1,475	I've seen this kind of thing before with Folding@home.