Nicholas Wade has an outstanding piece in today's Times Science section about the "hope" for Resverotrol and other sirtuin-activating compounds that may activate the lifespan extending pathway controlled by caloric restriction, although, like several stories on the subject lately, it left me wondering about a few things. Comment and answers appreciated, they are: 1. The reason for these stories--a Cell Metabolism article that appeared July 3 was actually quite negative about resverotrol's lifespan-extending effects. The Cell piece was about an experiment on normal, rather than high fat fed mice, raising the questions that resverotrol's previous success with high fat mice actually had more to do with energy partitioning than with the stress resistance touted by Sinclair and Guerente. Southern Illinois University School of Medicine

TROY, Michigan, July 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- Proven Italian software accelerates concept development process, empowering creative community to invent, explore and fully evaluate ideas quickly and cost-effectively

Leading industrial design/styling software company solidThinking (www.solidthinking.com) -- which has quietly grown its market share as the dominant tool of choice for Italian design firms and industrial designers for everything from jewelry and electronic devices to furniture and yachts -- is launching its latest version for Windows and Mac users worldwide.

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BEIJING, July 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- Over 60,000 Haier Products Installed in Olympic Venues

Haier, the world's fourth largest white goods manufacturer and the official white goods sponsor of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, announced today that it has provided over 60,000 environmentally-friendly and energy-efficient products to the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG). Products such as refrigerators, air-conditioners, washing machines and water heaters will be used throughout the Olympic venues.

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LONDON, July 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- All AJAX-Powered Features Supported in New Firefox 3 Browser

REHOVOT, Israel and JERSEY CITY, New Jersey, July 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- Test Developed and Validated by Columbia University Medical Center Based on Rosetta Genomics' Proprietary MicroRNA Technology

- The Test Differentiates Squamous From Non-Squamous Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC), Classifying Squamous-Cell Carcinoma of the Lung With Sensitivity of 96 Percent and Specificity of 90 percent

- This is the First CLIA Approved Test Which Leverages microRNAs' Sensitivity as Biomarkers for Accurate Diagnosis of Lung Cancer

BANGALORE, India, July 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Global Edge Software Ltd., a leading embedded wireless software solutions and services company based in Bangalore, India, today announced its alliance with QNX Software Systems, a leading global provider of operating systems, development tools, and middleware for embedded systems. Through this alliance, users of the QNX(R) Neutrino(R) real-time operating system (RTOS) will be able to benefit from GlobalEdge software and services. Along with the software services, GlobalEdge also brings to this alliance a whole range of IP offerings complementing QNX Software Systems' products for the networking and telecom markets.

FALLS CHURCH, Virginia, July 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- Agreement Extends Services Through 2015

CSC (NYSE: CSC) announced today that it has extended its information technology (IT) outsourcing contract with Swiss bank Zuger Kantonalbank. The new, seven-year contract, which is valued at US$33 million (34 million Swiss Francs) is an early renewal of a previous eight-year contract signed in 2002.

Under the agreement, CSC will continue to provide SAP-based applications services, including development, maintenance and support. Specifically, CSC will continue its 24x7 operation and management of Zuger's SAP banking platform and add new functionality that enhances system efficiency and increases ease of use.

OAK BROOK, Illinois and LONDON, July 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- Pharmaceutical Companies Balance Global Talent Management Programs with Local Foreign Labor Markets to Develop a Strategic Workforce Plan, According to Survey by GMAC Global Relocation Services

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida, July 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- FairWarning(R)'s Solutions Protect Healthcare Organizations from Privacy and Legal Threats

FairWarning, Inc., the world's leading supplier of cross-platform healthcare privacy auditing solutions for Electronic Health Records, today announced in the first six months of 2008, the company more than doubled revenues over the same time period of the previous year. FairWarning(R) transitioned from break even to profitable during the first half of 2008. The company expects by year end 2008, to double 2007 revenues.

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Adding just the right dash of nanoparticles to standard mixes of lubricants and refrigerants could yield the equivalent of an energy-saving chill pill for factories, hospitals, ships, and others with large cooling systems, suggest the latest results from National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) research that is pursuing promising formulations.

NIST experiments with varying concentrations of nanoparticle additives indicate a major opportunity to improve the energy efficiency of large industrial, commercial, and institutional cooling systems known as chillers. These systems account for about 13 percent of the power consumed by the nation’s buildings, and about 9 percent of the overall demand for electric power, according to the Department of Energy.