Sometimes, as with our post on the recent face transplant for Charla Nash (the victim of an attack by her friend's pet chimpanzee), new medical innovations are just too cool not to write about. This week brought us another one: scientists have, with the help of an army of computer gamers, described the structure of a protein that may prove crucial in developing better drugs to fight HIV.
Over at Discover Magazine, Ed Yong chronicles the importance of the protein's structure, and the technology that enabled it. There's too much detail to excerpt it properly; check out the whole article.
We're duly impressed, Foldit players! Keep up the good work (or play...?)! Whichever it is, it may prove critical to improving health--and we'll be on the lookout for more ways to crowdsource innovation.
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