CBC has a story about how Gamers’ discovery could generate anti-HIV drugs (Sept. 19, 2011). The story is about how players of Fold.It have solved a protein folding problem related to AIDS which has been recently published. (The paper is here.)
What is neat about this project is that it is an example of “citizen science” or crowdsourcing for research. Rather than use the computer to analyze the data, the computer/network was used to make it easier for humans to solve the problems. They turned protein folding into a game that enticed volunteers to play for science.