LONDON, May 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- Company's Participation in EIG Enhances Leading Global Network Capabilities

Verizon Business Tuesday (May 6) joined a consortium of 16 companies building a next-generation undersea optical cable system connecting Europe, the Middle East and India.

The new system, named the Europe India Gateway (EIG), is the third major submarine cable project Verizon Business has helped launch in the last four years and continues the company's global network leadership in delivering more capacity, reliability and speed for the data, video and voice services of its multinational customers.

NEW YORK, May 6 /PRNewswire/ --

Imtiaz Ahmad, Executive Director of Morgan Stanley's Carbon Trading group will present on the infrastructure of carbon trading in an interactive workshop setting outlining the mechanisms currently set in place and compare the pros and cons of alternative trading strategies and products. Other workshop leaders include Shawn Burns, CEO of Carbon Credit Corp, Milo Sjardin, Head of North America at New Carbon Finance, Tina Reine, Vice President, Carbon Markets at JP Morgan Chase, and Jeffrey Fort, Partner at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, May 6 /PRNewswire/ --

From May 7 to 9, Petrobras will advance discussions on issues such as sustainable development and biofuels during the Amsterdam Conference on Sustainability and Transparency. The event, held by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the world's biggest reference in sustainability report preparation, will bring more than a thousand participants together in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

PARIS, May 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that Michael Fabian, President of Industry and Public Sector for Alcatel-Lucent's services activities will deliver a media tutorial on the IPS market on May 20, 2008 at 3.00 PM Paris time (9 AM New York time). Michael Fabian will explain the communications needs of this sector and how Alcatel-Lucent is uniquely positioned to deliver solutions to solve its communications challenges.

LONDON, May 6 /PRNewswire/ --

Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) has announced the appointment of Eldar Hauge as managing director of its Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems operations in Norway. Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems is a leading provider of communication, navigation and surveillance systems for air-space operations worldwide.

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In this role, Hauge will be responsible for establishing and maintaining Northrop Grumman's relationships with existing and potential customers in Norway and for strengthening the company's ability to pursue new business opportunities in the international air traffic management market.

A new study by UC Davis researchers provides evidence that methods using human bone marrow-derived stem cells to deliver gene therapy to cure diseases of the blood, bone marrow and certain types of cancer do not cause the development of tumors or leukemia. The study was published online in the May 6, 2008 issue of Molecular Therapy.

"The results of our decade-long study of adult human stem cell transplantation shows that there is little risk of adverse events caused by gene transfer, and that adult human stem cells do not pose a cancer risk when implanted into different organs," said Jan Nolta, senior author of the study and director of the UC Davis Stem Cell Program.

Nolta and her colleagues tested the safety of gene transfer into bone marrow stem cells from human donors in more than 600 mice. None of the transplanted mice developed leukemia or solid tumors caused by the gene therapy treatment, during the evaluation period of up to 18 months.

NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia, May 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- Gamma Camera sales to be launched in Europe

Dilon Technologies announced today that it has received CE Mark (Conformite Europeenne) approval for the commercial sale of the Dilon 6800 Gamma Camera in European Union member countries. The Dilon system is a high-resolution gamma camera that enables molecular imaging of the breast and other small organs for early cancer detection.

TORONTO, May 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Dalton Pharma Services, a privately owned Canadian pharmaceutical services provider, and Thermo Fisher Scientific have entered into an agreement under which Dalton will use a proprietary Thermo Fisher manufacturing process to produce nucleic-acid biopolymers for pharmaceutical use.

CORAL GABLES, Florida, May 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- Acquisition of dermal filler product enhances company's aesthetic portfolio

Stiefel Laboratories, Inc., the world's largest independent pharmaceutical company specializing in dermatology, announced today that it has acquired ABR Invent and ABR Development, developers of the dermal filler Atlean(R).

Stiefel will acquire all shares of ABR Invent and ABR Development through a definitive stock purchase agreement. Both ABR Invent and ABR Development are legal entities based in France.

MONTREAL, May 6 /PRNewswire/ --