SUNNYVALE, California, December 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- mywaves' New Release Goes Live, Adding New Social Capabilities - Chat, Profiles, Favorites and More - to Popular Free Mobile Video Service

mywaves, the fastest-growing mobile video destination, today launched a major release of its free mobile video service that enables users to connect with their friends and the mywaves community, showcase their entertainment interests and share their favorites -- all from their mobile handsets. mywaves rolls out a completely new version of the popular mobile video service that's packed with an array of features to help its users discover content by connecting them to an international mobile community of people with a shared passion for entertainment.

SAN JOSE, California, December 17 /PRNewswire/ --

LONDON, December 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Misys plc (FTSE: MSY.L), the global application software and services company, today announces that it had been selected by UBI Banca International to help consolidate its international business. The Misys solution will enable the bank to improve efficiencies and business management across the group and ensure a consistent level of service to customers in Luxembourg, Spain and Germany.

PLANEGG-MARTINSRIED, Germany, December 17 /PRNewswire/ -- The Management Board and the Supervisory Board of the drug discovery and development company 4SC AG (Frankfurt, Prime Standard: VSC), with its headquarters in Martinsried, Germany, today published their joint statement on the public mandatory offer of Santo Holding (Deutschland) GmbH pursuant to Section 27 (1) of the German Securities Acquisition and Takeover Act (WpÜG).

OXFORD, England, December 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Deal Provides a Further Opportunity for OGeS to Grow its Therapeutic Antibody Pipeline

Oxford Genome Sciences (UK) Ltd "OGeS" announces today that it has entered into a strategic collaboration with Amgen to discover, develop and commercialise novel therapeutic antibodies for the treatment of cancer. This new collaboration will enable OGeS to further strengthen its pipeline of fully human therapeutic antibodies (mAbs) in cancer based on the target discovery capabilities of its unique OGAP(R) database.

The brain remains a complicated machine but researchers from the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC), a joint project of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh have made progress in explaining why, when we notice a scent, the brain can quickly sort through input and determine exactly what that smell is.

To do it, they created a biologically inspired algorithm for analyzing the brain at work and they have described a mechanism called “dynamic connectivity,” in which neuronal circuits are rewired “on the fly” allowing stimuli to be more keenly sensed.

“If you think of the brain like a computer, then the connections between neurons are like the software that the brain is running.

Researchers of the Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, have been working for more than 20 years on designing biological microchips for efficient and quick diagnostics of tuberculosis and other diseases.

The BIOCHIP-IMB company was set up at the Institute for production of domestic microchips. During the press-tour on November 15, 2007, the researchers told journalists about progress and achievements. The project of the laboratory of biological microchips at the Institute of Molecular Biology (Russian Academy of Sciences ) is one of the winners at the contest of projects on the “Living Systems” priority direction of the Federal Target Program guided by the Federal Agency for Science and Innovations (Rosnauka).

Time-lapse videos and computer simulations provide the first concrete molecular explanation of how a cell flexes tiny muscle-like structures to pinch itself into two daughter cells at the end of each cell division, according to a report in Science Express.

Cell biologists at Yale and physicists at Columbia teamed up to model and then observe the way a cell assembles the “contractile ring,” the short-lived force-producing structure that physically divides cells and is always located precisely between the two daughter cell nuclei.

“This contractile ring is thought to operate like an old-fashioned purse string,” said senior author Thomas D. Pollard, Sterling Professor and Chair of the Department of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology at Yale.

Levels of cholesterol in the membranes of hair cells in the inner ear can affect your hearing, said a consortium of researchers from Baylor College of Medicine, Rice University and Purdue University in a report in today’s print edition of The Journal of Biological Chemistry.

Dr. William Brownell, professor of otolaryngology at BCM and his colleagues, said that the amount of cholesterol in the outer hair cell membrane found in the inner ear can affect hearing.

“We’ve known for a long time that cholesterol is lower in the outer hair cell membranes than in the other cells of the body,” said Brownell, senior author of the report “What we didn’t know was the relationship it had to hearing.”