IRVINE, California, February 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- US Mobile Marketer SmartReply Launches New Voice Tool for Businesses, Harnessing the Power of Voice and Mobile

Next week's GMSA Congress is undoubtedly the largest and most comprehensive global gathering to focus on mobile technology, services and developments. It's also the perfect venue for US-based leader in voice and mobile marketing solutions, SmartReply, who last year launched an industry first; a CRM platform that seamlessly integrates voice, mobile, and e-mail communication channels.

Antioxidants are believed to help ward off illness and boost the body’s immune system by acting as free radical scavengers, helping to mop up cell damage caused by free radicals. But you don't have to pay a lot; the humble white button mushroom (Agaricus bisporus) has as much, and in some cases, more antioxidant properties than more expensive varieties.

Although the button mushroom is the foremost cultivated edible mushroom in the world with thousands of tons being eaten every year, it is often thought of as a poor relation to its more exotic and expensive cousins and to have lesser value nutritionally.

But according to new research in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, the white button mushroom has as much antioxidant properties as its more expensive rivals, the maitake and the matsutake mushrooms - both of which are highly prized in Japanese cuisine for their reputed health properties including lowering blood pressure and their alleged ability to fight cancer.

MANCHESTER, England, February 6 /PRNewswire/ --

The Bishop of Manchester has made a series of serious allegations against Dr. Gunther von Hagens, former University of Heidelberg researcher, inventor of the science of Plastination, and creator of BODY WORLDS. In a press release dated the 04 February and at a Press Conference at Manchester Cathedral on the 05 February, the Bishop has castigated the forthcoming BODY WORLDS 4 exhibition, to be hosted by the Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester, from the 22 February to 29 June, 2008.

Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University’s Molecular Biosensor and Imaging Center have developed new “fluorogen activating proteins” (FAPs) that will become a key component of novel molecular biosensor technology being created at Carnegie Mellon. The FAPs, which can be used to monitor biological activities of individual proteins and other biomolecules within living cells in real time, are described in the February issue of Nature Biotechnology.

Carnegie Mellon scientists designed the FAPs to emit fluorescent light only when bound to a fluorogen, an otherwise non-fluorescent dye added by the scientists. This feature will allow biologists to track proteins on the cell surface and within living cells in very simple and direct ways, eliminating cumbersome experimental steps.

A predisposition for obesity might be wired into the brain from the start, suggests a new study of rats in Cell Metabolism.

Rats selectively bred to be prone to obesity show abnormalities in a part of the brain critical for appetite control, the researchers found. Specifically, the researchers show that the obese rats harbor defects in neurons of the arcuate nucleus (ARH) of the hypothalamus, which leaves their brains less responsive to the hunger-suppressing hormone leptin.

SANTA BARBARA, California, February 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- 724's Seamless All-Ways Messaging and Seamless Follow-Me Messaging unlock the potential for revenue growth with next generation messaging applications.

724 Solutions, a leading provider of next generation mobile data solutions enabling seamless communications in an IP-based world, announced the launch of two market driven Seamless Messaging applications: Seamless All-Ways Messaging and Seamless Follow-Me Messaging, which enable mobile operators and service providers to connect previously isolated messaging domains, grow messaging connectivity across networks, stimulate messaging usage and increase messaging revenues.

Paleontologists, who use estimates based on the fossil record, and scientists who use "molecular clock" methods to study evolutionary history, have never agreed on when modern birds came into existence, because they have had conflicting results.

A new analysis by researchers at the University of Michigan, the University of Chicago, the Centre for Biodiversity Conservation Mexico and Central America, and Boston University offers the strongest molecular evidence yet for an ancient origin of modern birds, suggesting that they arose more than 100 million years ago, not 60 million years ago, as fossils suggest.

NEW YORK, February 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- Forum for Accomplished Women Entrepreneurs Launches in London

The Women Presidents' Organization (WPO) will launch a new chapter in London, England on Wednesday, February 13 introducing the first WPO presence in the United Kingdom. The WPO is the premier organization for accomplished woman entrepreneurs grossing at least US$2 million in annual revenue (US$1 million for a service-based business), or the pound equivalent.

INDIANAPOLIS, February 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- Global contest seeks expressions of the triumphs and challenges of living with diabetes through art, essay, poetry, photography and music

Eli Lilly and Company, the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), and the International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes (ISPAD) today announced that the entry deadline for submissions into the global competition will be extended until 31 March 2008. The global Inspired by Diabetes Creative Expression Competition is a contest asking people with diabetes, as well as their family and friends, to express how diabetes has impacted their lives -- and share those stories with others around the world. The original deadline for entries was 31 January 2008.

Squeeze a crystal of manganese oxide hard enough, and it changes from an electrical insulator to a conductive metal. In a Nature Materials report, researchers use computational modeling to show why this happens.

The results represent an advance in computer modeling of these materials and could shed light on the behavior of similar minerals deep in the Earth, said Warren Pickett, professor of physics at UC Davis and an author on the study.

Manganese oxide is magnetic but does not conduct electricity under normal conditions because of strong interactions between the electrons surrounding atoms in the crystal, Pickett said. But under pressures of about a million atmospheres (one megabar), manganese oxide transitions to a metallic state.