Replies to post #97927 on NanoViricides Inc. (NNVC)

[drkazmd65]

This 'game' model has worked before with a difficult to model piece of the HIV virus - was reported about 3 years ago. I use is as an example of how science and computers can work together during a lecture in an Intro Biology class I teach on weekends at the local CC:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/foldit-gamers-solve-riddle/

Foldit Gamers Solve Riddle of HIV Enzyme within 3 Weeks
The online game poses protein-folding puzzles, and participants provided insights recently that solved the structure of an enzyme involved in reproduction of HIV
Sep 20, 2011 |By Michael J. Coren and Fast Company

When video gamers armed with the world's most powerful supercomputers take on science and its most vexing riddles, who wins? Sometimes, it's the gamers.

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Would not be at all shocked to see if 'they' can figure out a solution that has evaded individual scientists & workgroups so far.

Sometimes lots of brains with an unclouded and unjaded background are better than one or two - even if those one or two are really good brains,....

[lousy engineer]

Don't know why everyone is fixated on Ebolacide- the reality is there's not much money to be made from Ebola.