Sleep inspires insight: "Sleep inspires insight"

Aha! I knew it :) :"more than twice as many subjects gained insight into the hidden rule after sleep " - sleeping helps your brain discover the deeper meaning of things. That's why I always want to sleep so much.

Wired News: MyDoom Targets Linux Antagonist: "Computers infected with the 'MyDoom' virus will begin to attempt to connect to the main page of the SCO company's website on Feb. 1. The connection requests will come roughly every second from each of the estimated thousands of machines that are now infected, in an attempt to overload SCO's Web server and knock the company's site off the Internet."

A funny virus/worm :) .. programmed DoS attack. It will not be the last time will see this type of worm activity for sure.

Starting the brain gain

I think finally there seams to be some indication that Europe is clamping down on the brain drain with a lot of help from the hostile emigration polices brought up by the anti terrorist fever in the US.

Honey bee genome sequenced: Genetic sequence generates research buzz.

"Its genome is about one-tenth the size of its human equivalent, containing about 300 million DNA base pairs"

A small genome from a hierarchically organized society spp. I guess bees have a well developed communication system. This should show up somewhere on the genome.

Automated research: Doctor Robot: "Automated research: Doctor Robot"

More data in less time ! Great :)

Li et al., 10.1126/science.1091403
A Map of the Interactome Network of the Metazoan C. elegans

Another intetactome :) yupiee. More data to play with.

Science -- Abstracts: Park et al. 303 (5656): 348: "Self-Assembly of Mesoscopic Metal-Polymer Amphiphiles"

yet another nanothech paper on science. This one I liked a lot. Self assembly of curved mesoscopic metal polymers. They make this funny nano rods and mixed them to make curved material like spheres. Very impressive manipulation.

Science -- Ferber 303 (5655): 158: "SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY:
Microbes Made to Order
Dan Ferber
A new breed of bioengineers aims to create microbes from off-the-shelf parts. The parts are coming, but will researchers be able to put them together?"

Craig Venter and MIT are pushing from the same thing, building modules to use in engineering new biological systems.
The best quote:
"They don't plan to wait around for the systems biologists, according to Endy: "Synthetic biology says, 'Screw it. You want modules? We'll build modules.' "