EMERYVILLE, California, October 7 /PRNewswire/ --

ProGenTech Limited, a life sciences & diagnostics company based in Shanghai, China and Emeryville, CA has signed a licensing agreement with Human Genetic Signatures, a Sydney, Australia based life science company to gain access to key hospital-acquired infection targets, payment terms were not disclosed.

WATFORD, England, October 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Salmon Limited ("Salmon"), a specialist in delivering eCommerce solutions, today announces the implementation of a new eCommerce platform to support Stylo plc ("Stylo") - the UK's second largest independent shoe retailer - and their brands, including PriceLess, Barratts, Discount Shoe Store, Petitfeet, Big Shoe Boutique and Nineteen Twentyone.

PLZEN, Czech Republic, October 7 /PRNewswire/ --

LENTE Clinic announced today that it had successfully treated its first patients with the third-generation Advance System implant for obstructive sleep apnea.

KVISTGÅRD, Denmark, October 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- 125 Patient, Prospective Randomized Placebo-Controlled Phase II Study Shows Statistically Significant Improved Overall Survival

KVISTGÅRD, Denmark, October 7 /PRNewswire/ --

Bavarian Nordic has now evaluated the mature phase II data from the therapeutic prostate cancer vaccine candidate PROSTVAC(TM) that had been obtained as part of the recently entered partnership with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in the US.

MANCHESTER, England, October 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Hospital super bugs may be the biggest challenge facing the NHS but a revolutionary technology - Byotrol - developed by a pioneering British company has helped create a hospital in the United States that is free of hospital acquired MRSA, VRE and C.difficile.

Since the Monroe Hospital opened in Bloomington Indiana, in October 2006 there has never been a recorded case of hospital acquired infection (HCAI).

This breakthrough technology offers a real solution to the UK hospital super bug crisis according to one of the country's foremost experts in hospital acquired infection.

WASHINGTON, October 7 /PRNewswire/ --

CeloNova BioSciences, Inc. today announced that it will showcase the technology behind the CATANIA(TM) Coronary Stent System featuring a NanoThin Polyzene(R)-F surface treatment during the 20th annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) scientific symposium sponsored by the Cardiovascular Research Foundation October 12-17. The CATANIA(TM) Coronary Stent System carries a CE Mark and is currently available for sale outside the United States.

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Scientists filming in one of the world’s deepest ocean trenches have found groups of highly sociable snailfish swarming over their bait, nearly five miles (7700 metres) beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean. This is the first time cameras have been sent to this depth.

‘We got some absolutely amazing footage from 7700 metres. More fish than we or anyone in the world would ever have thought possible at these depths,’ says project leader Dr Alan Jamieson of the University of Aberdeen’s Oceanlab, on board the Japanese research ship the Hakuho-Maru.

‘It’s incredible. These videos vastly exceed all our expectations from this research. We thought the deepest fishes would be motionless, solitary, fragile individuals eking out an existence in a food-sparse environment,’ says Professor Monty Priede, director of Oceanlab.

Smell plays an important role in our lives: It influences the way in which we choose fruit and vegetables, perfume, and even a partner. And yet, smell is not just what we smell with our noses, it's also what we taste, explains Prof. Alexander Vainstein, who is heading the team at the Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. "Aroma is of major importance for defining the taste of food."

Scent in flowers and plants is used to attract pollinating insects like bees and beetles that pass on the pollen and help in the reproduction and creation of fruit. The intensity of the scent that the flower emanates is influenced by the time of day, depending on weather, age of the flower and the species.

Now Vainstein and others have found a way to genetically enhance the scent of flowers and implant a scent in those that don't have one.

Astronomers studying new images of a nearby galaxy cluster have found evidence that high-speed collisions between large elliptical galaxies may prevent new stars from forming, according to a paper in the November 2008 Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Led by Jeffrey Kenney, professor and chair of astronomy at Yale, the team saw a spectacular complex of warm gas filaments 400,000 light-years-long connecting the elliptical galaxy M86 and the spiral galaxy NGC 4438 in the Virgo galaxy cluster, providing striking evidence for a previously unsuspected high-speed collision between the galaxies. The view was constructed using the wide-field Mosaic imager on the National Science Foundation telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona.

Moderate consumption of red wine may decrease the risk of lung cancer in men, according to a report in the October issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.

Chun Chao, Ph.D., a research scientist at Kaiser Permanente Department of Research and Evaluation in Pasadena, California, analyzed data collected through the California Men's Health Study, which linked clinical data from California's health system with self-reported data from 84,170 men aged 45 to 69 years. Researchers obtained demographics and lifestyle data from surveys computed between 2000 and 2003, and identified 210 cases of lung cancer.