Gamers succeed where scientists fail

Sunday, September 18, 2011 - 14:00 in Biology & Nature

Gamers have solved the structure of a retrovirus enzyme whose configuration had stumped scientists for more than a decade. The gamers achieved their discovery by playing Foldit, an online game [...]

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