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- New Partners in Northern and Eastern Europe, Central and South America, the Middle East and Asia

RapidShare has expanded its reseller network during recent months: internet users are now able to purchase RapidShare premium accounts from more than 70 resellers in over 50 countries worldwide and book additional traffic quotas using TrafficShare. A total of 28 different providers, listed under http://www.rapidshare.com/resellers.html are available to take payments. Authorised partners can be identified by RapidShare users by the original reseller logo.

Over recent months, new partners have been authorised in Northern and Eastern Europe - Bosnia Herzegovina, Ukraine, Norway and Macedonia; in the

LONDON, April 15 /PRNewswire/ --

Globeleq Generation Limited - the power generation company solely focused on the emerging markets of Africa, Asia and the Americas - has further strengthened its executive management team with the appointment of Mikael Karlsson as Chief Executive Officer.

Mikael brings extensive senior management experience in global development, acquisition, financing and equity investments of energy and infrastructure assets with 19 years in the industry.

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Suzy Brownlee has created a new series of children's books for ages 9-12, featuring her two daughters who sing 'Run', a song composed especially for the series.

Hoping to take a small step in addressing the recent findings into the declining state of UK children's literacy, Brownlee's The Littlest Detective in London, released today, entices readers with a YouTube video, dedicated website and photographic images of the lead characters, who are played by daughters Imogen, aged 9, and Britta, aged 16.

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- Company to Open London Office to Meet Increased Demand for Global Job Distribution and Internet Media Representation

In its second announcement in a month, eQuest, the global leader in job posting and Internet recruitment management services, confirmed today that it will open its second European office in London, England. Last month eQuest announced the opening of an additional technology office in Minsk, Belarus to strengthen its support and research and development in the European market.

New research provides insight into how the brain can execute different actions in response to the same stimulus. The study, published by Cell Press in the April 16 issue of the journal Neuron, suggests that information from single brain cells cannot be interpreted differently within a short time period, a finding that is important for understanding both normal cognition and psychiatric disorders.

If we're going to get a $300 genome sequence any time in the near future, around the cost it will take to have it as part of routine medical care, the process has to get faster.

The obstacles to reaching that goal have been primarily technological: Scientists have struggled to figure out how to accurately read the 3 billion base pairs - the amount of DNA found in humans and other mammals - using current time-consuming and inefficient methods.

Genetic differences can influence one's risk of developing proteinuria, a condition that increases the risk of cardiovascular disease and chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN). The results may be important for determining patients' health risks and for devising new medical treatments.

Approximately 12% of people in the United States have proteinuria (abnormal levels of protein lost in the urine), and African Americans and American Indians have higher risks of developing the condition than other groups. Researchers suspect that genetic variation likely accounts for part of their increased risks. 

The club moss Lycopodium serratum is a creeping, flowerless plant purportedly used to treat a wide variety of ailments. It contains a brew of alkaloids that have attracted scientific and medical interest because of the use of the moss in homeopathy. However, the plant makes many of these compounds in extremely low amounts, hindering efforts to test their therapeutic value.

That is no longer a problem for what is arguably the most complex of these alkaloids, a compound called Serratezomine A: an alkaloid that could have anti-cancer properties and may combat memory loss. A team of synthetic chemists at Vanderbilt University reported in the Journal of the American Chemical Society that they have created an efficient way to make this molecule from scratch. 

Today, five years after the inception of the DECIPHER database, researchers have published a report that reveals the developing role of the database in revolutionizing both clinical practice and genetic research. 

The report explores the growing benefits of DECIPHER for researchers, clinicians and patients - highlighting how the data, provided by around 100 centres and shared openly worldwide, can benefit all three groups.

A study of gene expression in chickens, frogs, pufferfish, mice and people has revealed surprising similarities in several key tissues. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access Journal of Biology have shown that expression in tissues with a limited number of specialized cell types is strongly conserved, even between the mammalian and non-mammalian vertebrates.