Show Me The Science Month Day 22



How do genes work together to build body traits? This is one of the hottest questions in genetics today, and the answer holds implications not only for our understanding of evolution, but also health, agriculture, and wildlife conservation. A recent paper in Science (by Scientific Blogging's own Redneck Geneticist) takes a look at how genetic variants work together to generate the physical diversity that we see in living organisms.

SAN DIEGO, March 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- Sierra Wireless and SGS Wireless join the CCF Board of Directors

The CCF (CDMA Certification Forum), a global non-profit organization dedicated to establishing test efficiency to streamline time to market and minimize costs associated with CDMA device certification, announced today its 2009 Board of Directors and its new members.

The newly elected Board members are Tracy Griffin from Sierra Wireless and Dawn Saad from SGS.

LONDON, March 4 /PRNewswire/ -- A new website has been launched which helps companies make money from their spare desks by renting them out to freelancers and small businesses. Desk Space Genie is the UK's first website dedicated to the growing phenomenon of desk space rental.

Ciaron Dunne of Desk Space Genie explains why desk space rental is taking off in the UK: Desk space rental is different to traditional office rental because the space is generally available on short, flexible contracts and the 'desker' gets to move into an existing set-up, complete with broadband internet and work colleagues.

Contrary to popular belief (trekkies especially) space is not yet the final frontier - we still have plenty of  unexplored frontier closer to home yet farther away from pop culture imagination: the oceans.  The deep ocean remains one of the last truly explored regions, and it remains almost as mysterious as any distant galaxy. 

According to Discovery Channel’s epic documentary, Blue Planet, Seas of Life, "Over 60% of our planet is covered by water more than a mile deep. The deep sea is the largest habitat on earth and is largely unexplored. More people have traveled into space than have traveled to the deep ocean realm."

TORONTO, March 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Scotia Capital and Scotiabank today announced the acquisition of select assets and employees from UBS Energy. The acquisition included trading and analytical technology, and approximately 60 front, mid- and back office personnel. Specific terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

We are very pleased to have completed this acquisition of a preeminent energy trading platform, said Matt Giffen, Managing Director and Head of Scotia Capital's Global Energy Solutions. Having reviewed a host of other potential opportunities, it is clear the proprietary technology and professional staff acquired from UBS Energy are market leading in every respect. The platform positions us to better serve clients.

WALTON-ON-THAMES, England, March 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- Enables Enterprises to Slash Storage Costs Instead of Staff and Achieve Significant Payback

Xenos Group Inc. (TSX: XNS) today launched Xenos DSR(TM), a high performance document storage reduction solution for enterprise content management (ECM). Xenos DSR reduces the amount of physical storage required to archive the high volumes of content-rich documents sent to customers - such as monthly statements, bills and correspondence - by more than 90 per cent. As such, it offers a proven way for enterprises to drastically reduce operational costs, providing an alternative to staffing or service reductions.

STOCKHOLM, March 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Diamyd Medical announces today that the Swedish Medical Products Agency has approved a study with the Diamyd(R) diabetes vaccine in children with high risk to develop type 1 diabetes.

(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080314/297194 )

To vaccinate children against diabetes has from the outset been one of Diamyd Medical's long term goals, says Elisabeth Lindner, President and CEO of Diamyd Medical. Type 1 diabetes is a life-long and very serious disease and it is good if we now can prevent it. It would avoid a lot of anxiety, suffering and costs for the children and their families as well as the rest of Society.

LONDON, March 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Britain's top component companies are refusing to spend less than a cost of a couple of pints of lager per employee for new research that could highlight the cancer risks in their industry.

The UK electronics industry, the world's fifth largest with 25,000 employees, is defying the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and government who have asked the top computer component companies to chip in to pay for the GBP600,000 report over four years.

Unite, the UK's largest union, which has already pledged GBP60,000 towards the cost, calculates that it would cost the industry GBP6 a year for each employee to fund the potentially life saving research.

CALGARY, Canada, March 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- 41 per cent increase in Funds Flow From Operations to US$1,850 million - 63 per cent increase in Net Income to US$784 million - 8 per cent increase in Production to 136.5 Mbbl/d - 20 per cent increase in Proved plus Probable Reserves to 536.7 MMbbl

CALGARY, Canada, March 4 /PRNewswire/ --

Addax Petroleum Corporation (Addax Petroleum or the Corporation) (TSX:AXC and LSE:AXC), today announced its results for the year ended December 31, 2008. The financial results are prepared in accordance with Canadian GAAP and the reporting currency is US dollars.

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona, March 4 /PRNewswire/ --

eTelecare Global Solutions (PSE: ETEL), a leading provider of complex business process outsourcing (BPO) solutions, has completed the acquisition of The Phone House (Proprietary) Limited, a BPO Services subsidiary of Talk Talk Group Limited, the telecommunications division of The Carphone Warehouse Group PLC (LON: CPW). In conjunction with the purchase of The Phone House, eTelecare entered into a three year agreement to provide BPO services to Talk Talk Group customers in the United Kingdom. The acquisition will enable eTelecare to further expand its global delivery network, by adding approximately 400 employees in Cape Town, South Africa.