PARIS, March 3 /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 that its most advanced injectable antibacterial, which combines Novexel's broad spectrum beta lactamase inhibitor, NXL104, with the well established cephalosporin antibiotic, ceftazidime, has entered a second Phase II clinical trial.

LONDON, March 3 /PRNewswire/ --

Based on its recent analysis of the autoimmune disease diagnostics markets, Frost Sullivan recognizes Aesku.Diagnostics with the 2008 European Frost Sullivan Product Line Strategy Award for its consistent approach towards product development. It has anticipated and catered to the needs in bio-marker identification, offered versatile immunoassay systems, extended research capabilities as well as delivered unprecedented sensitivity and exceptional performance.

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CeBIT - HANNOVER, Germany, March 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- deCarta WLNA Fleet Europe Streamlines Development of Fleet and Mobile Resource Management Navigation Solutions

ABERDEEN, Scotland, March 3 /PRNewswire/ --

ODS-Petrodata has launched the first interactive database and newswire service that covers the complex offshore construction vessel arena.

The new ConstructionVesselBase covers all vessels that install and maintain vital offshore oil and gas infrastructure, including platforms, pipelines and other subsea hardware throughout the world. Worldwide deployments of heavy lift construction barges, well intervention vessels, accommodation barges, and pipelay vessels are all tracked, as are the dive and ROV support vessels dedicated to the subsea market.

LONDON, March 3 /PRNewswire/ --

CMPMedica, the global healthcare information provider which is a division of United Business Media Limited, has signed an agreement with MAIDIS, the international healthcare software vendor, to provide an integrated medicine management system for two hospitals in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Natural wood, with its unique grain patterns, is what gives traditional acoustic instruments warm and distinctive sounds, while the power of modern electronic processing provides an unlimited degree of control to manipulate the characteristics of an instrument's sound. Now, a guitar built by a student at MIT's Media Lab promises to provide the best of both worlds.

LONDON, March 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- Ben Holmes Named Partner

Index Ventures today announced the closing of a euro 350 million early stage fund, Index Ventures V. The fund is dedicated to early stage and seed investments in the technology, biotechnology and clean technology sectors across Europe, the United States and Israel. It is the fifth early stage fund Index has raised in the past ten years and reinforces the firm's commitment to investing in innovative and disruptive companies, from the very earliest stages. The fund was raised almost entirely from the firm's existing base of limited partners.

A new Hubble image shows three galaxies locked in a gravitational tug-of-war that may result in the eventual demise of one of them.

About 100 million light-years away, in the constellation of Piscis Austrinus (the Southern Fish), three galaxies are playing a game of gravitational give-and-take that might ultimately lead to their merger into one enormous entity. A new image from the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope allows astronomers to view the movement of gases from galaxy to galaxy, revealing the intricate interplay among them. 

Gifted youths already know what they want to be when they grow up - in a lot of cases it's applied sciences, but when they are asked why they made their choices, they are not able to explain.

A study surveyed 800 gifted and non-gifted high-school students and examined the differences in self-concept and other psychological variables between the two groups. The study also observed the ways in which maturing gifted students form their identity. The results showed that while gifted youths have higher self-esteem in their educational achievements, they have lower self-esteem in social and physical aspects.

In a study in the latest issue of European Journal of Neuroscience, an interdisciplinary Northwestern research team says they have found biological evidence that musical training enhances an individual's ability to recognize emotion in sound. 

The study found that the more years of musical experience musicians possessed and the earlier the age they began their music studies also increased their nervous systems' abilities to process emotion in sound.