AIDS unravelled by the Human Mind

A fascinating story has popped up the media today. The original article is here on FOX news.

In weeks human 'gamers', folks who play video games, have deciphered a problem scientists and their computers have not been able to!
"In just three weeks, online gamers deciphered the structure of a retrovirus protein that has stumped scientists for over a decade, and a study out Sunday says their breakthrough opens doors for a new AIDS drug design.
The protein, called a protease, plays a critical role in how some viruses, including HIV, multiply. Intensive research has been underway to find AIDS drugs that can deactivate proteases, but scientists were hampered by their inability to crack the enzyme's structure"
Fantasic news, but what is it these gamers have that the scientists do NOT?
We get an insight here:
"Looking for a solution, researchers at the University of Washington turned to Foldit, a program created by the university a few years ago that transforms problems of science into competitive computer games, and challenged players to use their three-dimensional problem-solving skills to build accurate models of the protein.Looking for a solution, researchers at the University of Washington turned to Foldit, a program created by the university a few years ago that transforms problems of science into competitive computer games, and challenged players to use their three-dimensional problem-solving skills to build accurate models of the protein."
So what gives. All the eggheads and their thinking machines could not do what a few gamers did when all the dogma and rules are removed. Strange. So what was the missing ingredient?
We see here.
Seth Cooper, a co-creator of Foldit, added, "People have spatial reasoning skills, something computers are not yet good at.""
REASON. Actually, Seth: Computers cannot reason AT ALL. But it seems to me that more than a lack of the ability to reason spatially (or otherwise) in the MACHINES is missing here.
Maybe the scientists THEMSELVES lack the objectivity and REASONING to see what is right under their nose? Thank goodness Seth is not above borrowing someone else's eyes to look!