COLUMBUS, Ohio, December 29 /PRNewswire/ --

CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, announced today that scientists worldwide can now access more than 23.8 million predicted proton Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectra in SciFinder. SciFinder is the leading research and discovery tool and the authoritative source of information on more than 41 million chemical substances. These proton NMR spectra augment the 1.9 billion predicted and experimental properties and data tags already available in SciFinder.

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It seems like they're already everywhere - if you look down at your keyboard, one is providing the little green indicator for your Num Lock key, while another may be frantically blinking to inform you of your waiting voice mail. On your next drive, chances are you will stop at a stoplight lit purely by LED's and perhaps may notice a blinker made up of small, bright lights instead of one bulb.

LED's certainly are everywhere, faithfully providing indications of all kinds. But, with a few exceptions, the primary purpose of an LED is to indicate rather than illuminate, despite the fact that LED's do nothing useful besides produce light. A few new developments, however, may bring solid-state lighting into our homes very soon.

TORONTO, Canada, December 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Clarity Systems, a leader in corporate performance management (CPM) and external reporting solutions, today announced that Gartner, Inc. had positioned the firm in the 'Visionaries' section of the 2008 Magic Quadrant (TM) for CPM Suites(1).

BOZEN, Italy, December 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Robotics today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement with the Devon International Group (DIG), whereby DIG has acquired the exclusive rights to Health Robotics' CytoCare(TM) and i.v.STATION(TM) robots in the People's Republic of China. Health Robotics solutions offer unique benefits with great appeal to Government and Hospital officials in China, such as eliminating human handling of chemotherapy and other hazardous drugs during preparation, greatly improving accuracy, and reducing potentially fatal medication errors. DIG will initially staff its Health Robotics product team at its Beijing and Shanghai office locations, in addition to planned local manufacturing operations.

CAMBRIDGE, England, December 29 /PRNewswire/ --

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SLOUGH, England, December 29 /PRNewswire/ -- LG Electronics, the sponsor of London's 2008 New Year's Eve fireworks display are bringing some of the world's biggest icons to the capital to greet the New Year in style.

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Mayor of London, Boris Johnson will beam a personal message on to the Shell Building, situated on the Thames, via the world's tallest video projection. He will be amongst a star studded list of international personalities sharing their message of goodwill in the countdown to 2009.

BELGRADE, Serbia, December 29 /PRNewswire/ --

NovaRx Corporation today announced the opening of the company's pivotal Phase 3 clinical trial of Lucanix(R) (belagenpumatucel-L) in the treatment of advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in Serbia. Serbian oncology centers participating in the trial include the Clinical Hospital Center Benzanijska Kosa in Belgrade, the Clinic for Pulmonary Diseases and TB Knez Selo in Nis, and the Institute for Pulmonary Disease of Vojvodina in Sremska Kamenica.

SAN FRANCISCO, December 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- MediaCom and Shell Oil leverage the Un-roll to tell Shell's alternative energy story to the world

blinkx, the world's largest video search engine, today introduced the Un-roll Unit, an entirely new and immersive branding experience that gives advertisers the unique opportunity to tell a compelling story through their brand and online television, and enables users to engage with a brand continuously throughout a video. In addition, MediaCom and Shell Oil are among the first agencies and brands, respectively, to deploy the new ad format.

America is slightly schizophrenic when it comes to weight.   If you open a newspaper you can simultaneously read that the five skinny women left must need counselling and society is to blame for that but anorexia is genetic even though that gene seems to only be present in middle-class white girls, all while we are the fattest country in the world.  It can be confusing to people outside the US and anyone with a clue.

If you put 'genomics' on the end of a word, you can gain instant credibility, so it makes sense that someone would come up with 'nutrigenomics' and say they can make a diet that corresponds to your genetic profile.

It's tough to know what they mean by 'genetic profile' though obviously some people have a different metabolism than other so they can eat more.   A customized diet consisting of 'eat fewer calories' wouldn't seem to require genomics.   But 'nutrigenomics', they say, is something better because it aims to identify the genetic factors that influence the body's response to diet and studies how the bioactive constituents of food affect gene expression.