Economist.com | REPORTS: "Medicine: The open-source model is a good way to produce software, as the example of Linux shows. Could the same collaborative approach now revitalise medical research too?"

Quantum physics: Push-button teleportation: "Quantum physics: Push-button teleportation "

Two groups reported the generation of coherent superpositions of two internal states for a single trapped ion, and have teleported these quantum states to a second ion. It is not quite "beam me up" but it seams to be of possible interest for quantum computation.

IOL: Computers / IT

"The first-ever computer virus that can infect cellphones has been discovered, anti-virus software developers said on Tuesday, adding that up until now it has had no harmful effect."

Here we go ... it did not take them that long to come up with a cell phone virus. This is going to be a big long term problem. We are getting increasingly dependent on connectivity and the virus "spps." and number keeps on growing at a incredible rate. Soon they will make a virus that replicates and changes itself by code mutations and somebody will have to invent some sort of immune system that adjust automatically :D.

Las Vegas SUN: German Researcher Stripped of Doctoral: "Schoen, now 34, was fired by Bell Laboratories in New Jersey in September 2002 after an outside review committee concluded that he made up or altered data 16 times while working in the hot fields of superconductivity and molecular electronics.
Findings he helped research were published in prominent journals such as Science, Nature and Applied Physics Letters. "

They are removing is doctorate credentials. It should be really hard to go from possible Nobel winner to losing everything ... but if he did fake all the work, he deserves it.

Directory of open access
journals

A service created to cover free, full text journals. The project is funded by Open Society Institute - Budapest and also supported by SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition).
http://www.osi.hu/infoprogram/
http://www.arl.org/sparc/

Journals that has an embargo period will not be added.
This is a pity. They should also include papers released after the embargo period.

Gene regulation: A reason for reading nonsense


The process of transcribing DNA can itself regulate gene expression in yeast: in the case concerned it is the very act of reading the DNA, not the message produced, that carries out the regulatory job.
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A simple example where the RNA polymerase disrupts the expression of a gene by production of a upstream non-coding sequence. The message is not important only the actual reading trough the downstream promoter.

Double check casts doubt on statistics in published papers


A study highlighting statistical gaffes in scientific literature has brought renewed calls for vigilance among mathematically challenged researchers and journal editors.
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Maths in Biology .. still not up to it.