ZURICH, Switzerland, May 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- Agreement Enhances Customer Experience Through 'One-Touch' Approach for Multinationals Operating in Switzerland

Verizon Business, a leader in the delivery of global Internet protocol-based enterprise communications, and Swisscom, Switzerland's leading telecommunications provider, today announced an alliance that will provide enhanced global service and support capabilities to Swiss multinational companies and companies with operations in the Swiss market.

LEIPZIG, Germany, May 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The Secretary General of the International Transport Forum, Jack Short, along with Leipzig's mayor, Burkhard Jung, opened the International Transport Forum 2008 in Leipzig yesterday with a tour of the concomitant exhibition.

HELSINKI, May 28 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 10,000 newcomers to the online store business have registered as users of the free Wosbee online store software and joined a fast-growing social community of online store operators. Wosbee.com offers free software and maintenance along with a social network that helps them to develop their online store activities.

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Would you like a side of food poisoning with that salad?

Salmonella can infect plant cells and successfully evade all the defense mechanisms of plants so cleaning the surfaces of raw fruits and vegetables, e.g. by washing, is not sufficient to protect against food poisoning, according to a study published today.

The results of the project are based on a model plant, which also represents the ideal basis for future development work on treatment and testing systems in the area of food safety.

1.5 billion (!) cases of food poisoning are caused by Salmonella bacteria each year (World Health Organisation). If the bacteria survive particularly well in a person, they can even infect intestinal cells and persist for longer. Previously, the only known sources of infection were infected meat products and plants that had come into contact with contaminated water.

Amyloid deposits in tissues and organs are linked to a number of diseases, including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, type II diabetes, and prion diseases such as BSE. However, amyloids are not just pathological substances; they have potential as a nanomaterials.

Amyloid fibrils are bundles of highly ordered protein filaments made of ladder-like strands and can be several micrometers long.

In cross-section, amyloids appear as hollow cylinders or ribbons. Although amyloid fibrils are proteins, they more closely resemble synthetic polymers (plastics) than the usual globular proteins. Amyloids can display amazing mechanical properties similar to spider silk. Spider silk is, by weight, significantly stronger than steel and can be stretched to many times its original length without tearing — properties that have not been reproducible with synthetic fibers.

BEIJING, May 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- China is ranked second in the world by number of scientific papers published in 2007 according to citation analysis based on data from the Scientific business

LONDON, May 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- Builds Credibility in the UK

UK-AIRS, a company of The RightThing and the leader in recruitment training, technology and outsourcing, today announced its certification in "Safe Harbor" principles, set by the European Union to ensure data privacy protection.

RALEIGH, North Carolina and LONDON, May 28 /PRNewswire/ --

Campbell Alliance Group, Inc., the leading management consulting firm specializing in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry, today announced the opening of its new branch office in London. The office, a branch of Campbell Alliance, Ltd., is located in Chiswick Park in West London.

The new office is Campbell Alliance's first office location outside the United States and its tenth office worldwide.

"Each of Campbell Alliance's practice areas has been supporting clients in the United Kingdom and Europe for several years, but it is only now that we've made the decision to move forward with full operations and a permanent overseas facility," stated John Campbell, CEO of Campbell Alliance.

Lusi, the world’s fastest-growing mud volcano, is collapsing and could subside to depths of more than 140 meters with consequences for the surrounding environment, according to new research.

As the second anniversary (May 29) of the eruption on the Indonesian island of Java approaches, scientists have also found that the center of the volcano is collapsing by up to three meters overnight.

Such sudden collapses could be the beginning of a caldera - a large basin-shaped volcanic depression - according to the research team, from Durham University UK, and the Institute of Technology Bandung, in Indonesia.

Dozens of studies show collagen repair is possible and demonstrate why three types of available skin treatments, topical retinoic acid, carbon dioxide laser resurfacing and injections of cross-linked hyaluronic acid, are effective.

University of Michigan scientists draw on dozens of studies since the early 1990s to explain why these treatments all improve the skin’s appearance – and its ability to resist bruises and tears – by stimulating new collagen. Collagen is a key supporting substance, plentiful in young skin, that’s produced in the sub-surface layer of skin known as the dermis. The findings show that the breakdown of the dermis’ firm, youthful structure is a very important factor in skin aging – a much more straightforward thing to fix than genetic factors that others theorize may be involved.

“Fibroblasts are not genetically shot,” says John J. Voorhees, M.D., F.R.C.P., chair of the Department of Dermatology at the University of Michigan Medical School and the article’s senior author. Fibroblast cells in the skin are the key producers of collagen.