AMSTERDAM, May 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Dr. Mielke Continues his Collaboration With Kiadis Pharma on ATIR(TM)

Biopharmaceutical company Kiadis Pharma announces today the clinical development collaboration for its lead product ATIR(TM) with Dr. Stephan Mielke and Professor Dr. Hermann Einsele from the Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplant Center, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine II at the Julius-Maximilians University of Würzburg, Germany. Principal investigator of this collaboration will be Dr. Mielke.

FARNBOROUGH, England, May 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Infor Survey Also Reveals Supply Chain Visibility and Shrinking Margins as Biggest Pressure Points in 2008

Infor today released the findings of its latest research, which reveal that supply chain professionals are calling upon the UK Government to help reduce the industry's carbon footprint. Two thirds (67 per cent) of supply chain professionals surveyed, believe their environmental initiatives should be subsidised by the state.

LONDON, May 29 /PRNewswire/ -- "Cheap fuel" and "cheap petrol" are both new entries in the top twenty most searched for financial terms on the internet this month according to leading search engine, Ask.com, as householders and motorists suffer the consequences of the spiralling cost of oil.

Results to the searches are pointing consumers to specialist sites giving advice on where to get the best deals for both domestic energy supplies at home and petrol on the garage forecourt.

LONDON, May 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Examining Planning and Budgeting in Europe

At the 2008 Tagetik User Conference, Business Application Research Center (BARC) released the preliminary results of its latest study titled "Planning and Budgeting in Europe - Status quo and opportunities for Performance Management". BARC researched different planning requirements and approaches in 500 European companies.

"We focused on planning and budgeting due to the complex and changing nature of these processes," explains Dr. Carsten Bange, CEO at BARC. "As organisations grow and more stakeholders become involved, these processes quickly become even more challenging."

SARATOGA, California, May 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- RTLS and Site Survey Products to Support New Wi-Fi Standard

SARATOGA, California, May 29 /PRNewswire/ --

Ekahau Inc., a leading provider of Wi-Fi-based Real Time Location Systems (RTLS), today announced that its Ekahau RTLS location tracking solution and Ekahau Site Survey (ESS) Wi-Fi network planning and optimization tools will work seamlessly with the upcoming 802.11n standard.

LONDON, May 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- McMonigall Backs Journey Dynamics' Traffic Intelligence Technology With Private Investment

Journey Dynamics (http://www.journeydynamics.com) a privately-owned provider of traffic intelligence, today announces that John McMonigall has joined its board of directors as a non-executive director following a private financial investment in the company. McMonigall, a partner of UK-based private equity and venture capital firm Apax Partners, will bring his extensive operational and investment experience to the company.

RAMALLAH, Palestine and MODI'IN, Israel, May 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Unveils Revolutionary Free Virtual Computer Announces Investment From Benchmark Capital

The G.ho.st(TM) Virtual Computer was selected yesterday as one of just five new consumer technologies from around the world to launch on-stage at the Wall Street Journal's prestigious D: All Things Digital conference. G.ho.st (the Global Hosted Operating SysTem at http://G.ho.st, pronounced "ghost") offers its Web-based Virtual Computer (VC) free of charge to every human being.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, May 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Our use of PCs and other IT products has a significant impact on the climate. The impact worldwide equals that of the entire aviation sector. A more efficient use of IT products and climate friendly purchases of new equipment could reduce the climate impact by more than 80 per cent, according to a new study by TCO Development.

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Millions of patients suffer from poorly healing large-area wounds caused by complaints such as diabetes, burns or bedsores. The wounds can be treated with conventional collagen dressings or polylactic acid dressings, but the success rate is not as good as it should be.

A new type of dressing made of silica gel fibers, developed by scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research ISC in Würzburg, could solve the problem. This novel dressing has many advantages: it is shape-stable, pH-neutral and 100 percent bioresorbable.

Once applied it remains in the body, where it gradually degrades without leaving any residues. The fiber fleece provides the healthy cells around the edges of the wound with the structure they additionally need for a proper supply of growth-supporting nutrients. To prevent any infection, treatment of the wound must be absolutely sterile.

Peptide arrays are powerful tools for developing new medical substances as well as for diagnosis and therapy techniques. A new production method based on laser printing will enable the potential of peptide arrays to be better utilized for more applications.

Peptides are protein fragments consisting of up to 50 amino acids. Peptides with a length of 15 to 20 amino acids arranged in arrays are sufficient for drug research and for identifying pathogenic proteins but the capacity of such arrays is limited.

A maximum of 10,000 peptides will fit onto a glass slide at present but biochips with 100,000 peptides are needed in order to represent each of the approximately thousand proteins in a bacterium – in the form of 100 overlapping peptides – and a staggering 500,000 are required for a malaria pathogen.