PARIS, March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Novexel, a speciality pharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of novel antibiotics designed to overcome the significant global problem of microbial resistance, announces today the appointment of Dr. Karen Bush to the Company's Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). Novexel's SAB is chaired by Dr. David Shlaes who sits on the Company's board. Dr. Bush, who is currently Adjunct Professor at the Department of Biology at Indiana University, brings extensive experience and knowledge of the anti-infectives field to Novexel's SAB.

LONDON, March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- A survey commissioned by the UK's leading dental payment plan specialist, Denplan, revealed that 89 per cent of us understand that poor dental health could impact on our overall general health.

While 72% of us would not consider delaying a dental appointment, the figures suggest that some of us are willing to risk our health with 13% admitting to delaying or even cancelling a routine check-up because of the recession. This suggests that 6 million* adults are delaying dental check-ups because of pressure on finances.

The survey also revealed that routine dental care is important (88 per cent) to us, and that 87 per cent of us are happy with the dental care that we receive from our dentist.

MILTON KEYNES, England, March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Safenames announces that it has become the to first company to be accredited by the United Kingdom ENUM Consortium ( UKEC) to be validation agent for UK (+44) ENUM . Using ENUM will greatly lower telecommunication expenses and is expected to quickly revolutionize the way that we communicate.

LOS ANGELES, March 26 /PRNewswire/ --

The continuing media coverage of the debate in Israel over the upcoming BODY WORLDS exhibition in Haifa has inadvertently neglected to present the many dimensions of this scientific and scholarly endeavor.

The historical, religious, and scientific contexts of anatomical exhibitions in general and BODY WORLDS in particular, the support of our public health exhibition by religious groups and spiritual leaders across faiths including Judaism, and the lifestyle conversions and philosophical and religious insights reported by millions of our visitors are worthy of full consideration in this vigorous discourse about BODY WORLDS (http://www.bodyworlds.com/en/media/temp.html).

LONDON, March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Nutritionist, bodyworker and cellulite guru Georgios Tzenichristos has been researching the cellulite science for the last 10 years and now offers from his Knightsbridge practice a personalised, manual cellulite massage technique that promises gradual but guaranteed and long-lasting results (http://www.lipotherapeia.com/guaranteed).

VIENNA, Virginia, March 26 /PRNewswire/ --

- Using its flagship product RulePoint(R), Agent Logic provides non-technical cyber analysts with a real-time multi-INT operational view of cyber threats

    One of the earliest scientific speculations about the origin of life was Alexander Oparin’s proposal in 1924 that life began as jelly-like blobs he called coacervates. Oparin knew that the unit of life was the cell, but it had not yet been established that cells had membranous boundaries,  so coacervates were thought to be reasonable experimental models of the “protoplasm” that seemed to compose all cells.  Oparin also discussed conditions on the early Earth as part of the story, setting the stage for what would later become astrobiology.

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First published in Dutch in 1976, Gnomes by Wil Huygens and Rien Poortlivet remains the definitive tome on these reticent woodland denizens.  A classic of fiction science, this lavishly detailed field notebook of the physiology, habits, and habitat of gnomes as observed over 20 years of firsthand observation.  The physician-illustrator team wastes no time in addressing questions of physiological scale:

Chemists reported development of what they termed the first economical, eco-friendly process to convert algae oil into biodiesel fuel — a discovery they predict could one day lead to U.S. independence from petroleum as a fuel.

One of the problems with current methods for producing biodiesel from algae oil is the processing cost, and the New York researchers say their innovative process is at least 40 percent cheaper than that of others now being used. Supply will not be a problem: There is a limitless amount of algae growing in oceans, lakes, and rivers, throughout the world.

Another benefit from the "continuously flowing fixed-bed" method to create algae biodiesel, they add, is that there is no wastewater produced to cause pollution.