LONDON, June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Clinica - the world's leading news service for the medical technology industry - has learned that staff and visitors to London's Houses of Parliament have been at risk of exposure to high levels of asbestos contamination for significant periods during the last three years. This news comes despite warnings from experts hired to monitor the situation as well as Parliamentary assurances that the material discovered in 2005 was safely contained.

In addition, the news casts serious doubt on whether regulations introduced three decades ago to control asbestos contamination are working to eliminate risk of exposure to this extremely dangerous carcinogen.

REDWOOD CITY, California, June 17 /PRNewswire/ --

Ingenuity Systems, the leading provider of information solutions for life science researchers, today released IPA 6.3, the newest version of its pathway analysis and life sciences knowledge software. IPA now supports Affymetrix GeneChip(R) Exon Arrays and several new animal and plant species.

AMSTERDAM, June 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Dutch Start-Up to Provide Multi-Mousing Capabilities for the Monitoring & Security Industry

WunderWorks BV, a software company delivering multi-user and interaction solutions, announced today it will launch its cooperation with Barco's Monitoring & Security Division during Infocomm 2008 in Las Vegas on 18 June 2008.

WunderWorks is the world's market leader in multi-user on-location business solutions, enabling multiple users to work together on one screen with multiple mouse and keyboards in standard Windows environments or applications.

PARIS, June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext: Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that it has been chosen by BT to supply its IP Service Router in an expanded role within BT's 21CN all-IP national rollout. Alcatel-Lucent is a preferred supplier to the 21CN project with the 7750 Service Router (SR) operational in many locations. The 7750 SR deployments will now be expanded in line with BT's announced customer-driven plans to extend its Ethernet services with additional points-of-presence in the metro elements of the network. The value of the contract has not been disclosed.

Mount Sinai researchers have discovered that polyphenolics derived from red grape seeds may be useful agents to prevent or treat Alzheimer's Disease(AD).

This new study explored the possibility of developing 'wine mimetic pills' that would replace the recommended beneficial glass of red wine a day for AD prevention.

Giulio Maria Pasinetti, senior author and Director of the NCCAM-NIH funded Center of Excellence for Research in Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Alzheimer's Disease at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and his collaborator Dr. Jun Wang of Mount Sinai, through a partnership between the Research Center at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Dr. Anil Shrikhande, the Director of the Polyphenolics Division of Constellation Brands, a producer of biologically active grape products, tested the hypothesis that certain molecules contained in red wine, in particular in red grape seeds currently being developed with the name of Meganatural AZ, might offset disease progression in mice genetically modified to develop Alzheimer' disease.

COPENHAGEN, June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Milestone Systems, a leading developer of open platform IP video management software, announces the availability of XProtect Corporate version 2.0. Designed for large-scale applications, it supports unlimited numbers of cameras, servers and users, with central control and intuitive access clients that make big installations very easy to manage.

The modern debate about protein has extended far beyond the Atkin's Diet and into a large part of our culture. On this site alone, you can find articles written by T. Colin Campbell, who says that 'complete' proteins in meat are a myth, to Seth Roberts and an intriguing interview with Gary Taubes.

New findings in the May issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition(1) describes the conclusions of a Protein Summit held last spring, which brought together the world's leading scientists in protein research and is certain to add fuel to the fire.

The summit's attendees report that eating a higher protein diet - still within the recommended range, but toward the top of it - may play a role in optimal health, as higher protein diets are linked with a lower risk for many health conditions such as type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular diseases and osteoporosis as well as sarcopenia, the degenerative loss of skeletal muscle mass and strength.

Nutrition researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified five common genetic variations that increase the risk of metabolic syndrome, a group of factors linked to heart disease and diabetes. Another variant they found appeared to protect against the condition.

People with metabolic syndrome have at least three of the following symptoms: abdominal obesity, high blood triglyceride levels, lower good cholesterol (HDL), elevated blood pressure and elevated fasting blood glucose. They are four times as likely to develop heart disease and at least seven times more likely to develop diabetes as individuals without metabolic syndrome.

The investigators, who report their findings in the June issue of the journal Human Molecular Genetics, looked for changes in the CD36 gene, which is located in a region of chromosome 7 that has been linked to metabolic syndrome in several genome-wide studies.

HELSINKI, June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Winwap Technologies Oy, specialist in providing mobile Internet browsers (WAP) and multimedia messaging (MMS) software announced today that it is cooperating with SiRF Technology Holdings Inc, a world leader in location technology, to make Winwap's software applications available to SiRF's customers. SiRF will promote Winwap Applications that include WinWAP Browser, MMS Client and Unified Inbox for their customers who use SiRF's SoC platforms for GPS enabled connected devices.

GLOUCESTER, England, June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- The cost of everything is on the up: your mortgage, your weekly food bill and of course the fill-up at the pumps. Weddings are no exception. Every year the cost of the average wedding creeps up. Even if you're not planning an event on the Rooney scale, the total cost of a 'big day' is now estimated to be over GBP20,000*. That's almost as much as the average annual salary**. Weddings are rarely quiet, informal affairs; they are elaborate events with no expense spared.