SINGAPORE, April 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Studies Advance the Development of Novel Vaccine for Dengue Prevention in Asia Pacific

SINGAPORE, April 21 /PRNewswire/ --

Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of sanofi-aventis Group (EURONEXT : SAN and NYSE : SNY), announced today the start of clinical studies of its investigational tetravalent dengue vaccine in Singapore and Vietnam.

With these studies, sanofi pasteur is expanding its global dengue vaccine clinical study program in Asia where trials are already ongoing in Thailand and the Philippines. These studies are aimed at advancing the development of a novel vaccine for the prevention of dengue in the Asia-Pacific region.

GENEVA, April 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- First Drug in Europe Indicated for the Treatment of Hyperphenylalaninaemia (Hpa) due to Phenylketonuria (Pku) or Tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) Deficiency, now Commercially Available in France, Germany and the United Kingdom

Merck Serono, a division of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, today announced that Kuvan (sapropterin dihydrochloride), indicated for the treatment of hyperphenylalaninaemia (HPA) due to phenylketonuria (PKU) or tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) deficiency, is now commercially available in Europe. Beginning with France, Germany and the United Kingdom, Kuvan will be rolled out in a total of thirteen European countries this year.

JERSEY CITY, New Jersey and LONDON, April 21 /PRNewswire/ --

Knight Capital Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NITE) today announced the introduction of agency algorithmic trading and smart order execution strategies developed specifically for the European equity marketplace.

LONDON, April 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- First UK Gastric Band Operation Through The Belly Button

In a British medical first pioneering surgeon Professor Franco Favretti and his team have performed the UK's first SILS (Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery) gastric band implantation.

This means overweight patients no longer have to undergo the usual five incisions for traditional laparoscopic gastric banding surgery, Professor Favretti performed the operation via a single incision through the belly button.

SILS is the next logical step in the progression of laparoscopic surgery and has several advantages for the patient:

LONDON, April 21 /PRNewswire/ -- A widespread confusion and ignorance about multiple sclerosis (MS) in the minds of the general public has been revealed in a new survey.

The results of the poll carried out for the MS Society highlight the many misconceptions that exist around the condition, and have been released ahead of next week's MS Week, during which the charity hopes to encourage better understanding among the public.

The You Gov poll shows that of the more than 2,000 questioned there was a lack of understanding of how common MS is, what its symptoms were and at what age it is generally diagnosed.

DROITWICH, England, April 21 /PRNewswire/ --

Ericom announced today that the London-based charity United Bible Society (UBS) has selected PowerTerm WebConnect to provide secure remote application access.

Ericom's PowerTerm WebConnect RemoteView is recognised by many as the leading Citrix alternative solution providing secure access at a significantly lower cost than the alternatives.

HOUSTON, April 21 /PRNewswire/ --

Endeavour International Corporation (NYSE-Alt: END) (LSE: ENDV) will host a conference call to discuss its 2009 first quarter financial and operating results on Friday, May 1, 2009 at 9 a.m. Central Daylight Time, 3 p.m. British Summer Time.

To participate and ask questions during the conference call, dial the local country telephone number and the confirmation code 4312643. The toll-free numbers are 888-708-5692 in the United States, 0-800-051-7166 in the United Kingdom, and 800-191-83 in Norway. Other international callers should dial +1-913-312-0962 (tolls apply). To listen only to the live audio web cast access Endeavour's home page at http://www.endeavourcorp.com.

ATLANTA, April 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- Secure Erase Firmware-Based Command Combined With Software Overwriting and Reporting Capabilities Safely Sanitize ATA and SCSI Drives

Blancco, the global leader in data erasure and end-of-lifecycle solutions, today announced support for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) guidelines for firmware-based erasure of ATA and SCSI drives. With its new and enhanced client erasure software, Blancco takes the NIST-recommended guidelines a step further by uniting them with a software overwriting option that verifies complete erasure - a level of support not found in other data erasure products.

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A team of astronomers from University College London (UCL) have discovered that an exotic world passes directly in front of the Sun-like star it orbits, revealing for the first time that it is about the same size as Jupiter.

The team were alerted by the exoplanet science website http://www.oklo.org, run by Greg Laughlin of the University of California Santa Cruz. Using infrared space observations, Greg predicted that a planet (HD 80606b) would pass in front of its parent star (HD 80606) in a so-called transit event.

Rather than travelling to one of the major observatories in Hawaii or Chile, the students used a telescope at UCL's University of London Observatory (ULO) in the capital's northern suburb of Mill Hill.

Exoplanet researcher Michel Mayor today announced the discovery of the lightest exoplanet found so far. The planet, Gliese 581 e, in the famous system Gliese 581, is only about twice the mass of our Earth. The team also refined the orbit of the planet Gliese 581 d, first discovered in 2007, placing it well within the habitable zone, where liquid water oceans could exist.

These amazing discoveries are the outcome of more than four years of observations using the most successful low-mass-exoplanet hunter in the world, the HARPS spectrograph attached to the 3.6-meter ESO telescope at La Silla, Chile.