HHMI researchers bring the arcane world of protein folding to the online gaming ... But, says Popović, “soon we’ll be introducing puzzles for which we don’t know the solution.” Baker has high hopes ...

To understand how proteins work and to prevent misfolding, scientists needed a way to predict the way proteins fold, but ...

Treuille founded the team that built the protein folding game Foldit, the first open online game that lets untrained amateurs speed up biochemical research by solving fun visual puzzles.

But then it came back on my radar in about 2009, where there was this game called Foldit, where some people had created a puzzle game ... of cracking these folding proteins? The plan behind ...