LEUVEN, Belgium, November 14 /PRNewswire/ --

- Results Continue to Support Microplasmin's Potential to Make a Major Contribution to the Treatment of Back of the eye Disease

ThromboGenics NV (Euronext Brussels: THR), a biotechnology company focused on eye disease, vascular disease and cancer, announces promising six month follow-up results from its Phase IIb MIVI III trial, which was designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of microplasmin in vitrectomy. The results were presented at the American Academy of Ophthalmology in Atlanta, USA, by Dr. Kirk Packo, Professor and Chairman at the Department of Ophthalmology, Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois.

An article published electronically in the scientific journal Acta Paediatrica describes how heart rate and sleep in boys are affected by violent video games. Researchers from Stockholm University, Uppsala University and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have worked together with this study.

A recently discovered female pelvis is changing minds about the head size of an ancient human ancestor, Homo erectus, and consequently revising notions about how smart they may have been. The Pleistocene adult female Homo erectus pelvis was from the Busidima Formation of Gona, Afar, Ethiopia., not far from the site that yielded the 3.2 million year old remains of the famed Australopithecus afarensi "Lucy," and the pelvis indicates that Homo erectus, which lived in Africa roughly 2 million years ago, had a larger birth canal than originally suspected and could have given birth to babies with bigger brains.

An unusual microorganism discovered in the open ocean may force scientists to rethink their understanding of how carbon and nitrogen cycle through ocean ecosystems.

A research team led by Jonathan Zehr, a marine scientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, characterized the new microbe by analyzing its genetic material, even though researchers have not been able to grow it in the laboratory.  Zehr said the newly described organism seems to be an atypical member of the cyanobacteria, a group of photosynthetic bacteria formerly known as blue-green algae.

We are now in the transition from the Information Age to the Shift Age. In recent columns I have positioned the recent financial melt down and global economic collapse as the beginning of a painful transitional restructuring between ages. Just as the 1970s with all its stagflation and unprecedented turmoil was the transitional period between the Industrial Age and the Information Age, so is this time a transitional period between the Information Age and the Shift Age.

LOS ANGELES, November 14 /PRNewswire/ --

- H.H. Sheikh Khalid To Meet with Key Government Officials, Business Leaders and Dignitaries in Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, to Build on a 'Pledge For Progress'

His Highness Sheikh Khalid bin Saqr Al Qasimi, The Crown Prince and Deputy Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah, the northernmost Emirate of the United Arab Emirates, today launched a friendship tour through the United States where he will be meeting with key government officials, business leaders and dignitaries while participating in important political forums.

MADRID, Spain, November 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- SolFocus 1100S slated for medium- to large-scale installations

SolFocus today announced its latest Concentrator Photovoltaic (CPV) solution -- the SolFocus 1100S. This new CPV system achieves panel efficiencies of 25% resulting in systems which produce the highest energy density and highest energy yield of photovoltaic systems available today. SolFocus customer EMPE Solar will deploy the SolFocus 1100S in its recently announced 10 megawatt large-scale project, expected to be the largest deployment of CPV technology in Europe.

Autoimmune diseases are some of the most confounding diseases that affect the human body. Viruses, bacteria and parasites are all simple compared to the complexities and complications that arise when faced with treating an autoimmune disease. Researchers and physicians alike are unsure of the root of most autoimmune diseases and can only guess as to what specifically triggers our immune system to turn on itself. Treatment for most autoimmune diseases is brutal, consisting of high doses of steroids which suppress immune system function.

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, November 13 /PRNewswire/ --

As a follow-up to the rapid distribution of recovery instructions and repair CDs, AVG Technologies is offering all affected users a free license or license extension as follows:

-- For affected users of commercial AVG 7.5 products, a one-year license for the equivalent AVG 8.0 product

-- For affected users of commercial AVG 8.0 products, a free license extension for one year

-- For affected users of AVG Free products, a free one-year license for AVG Anti-Virus 8.0

Beginning the week of November 24th, 2008, AVG Technologies will contact affected customers and advise them on how they may obtain their complimentary license or license extension.

SAN FRANCISCO, November 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- Next Generation Application Provides Real-Time Ranking of a Company's Relative Risk, in Time for Investors to Act

Glass Lewis Co., LLC, a leading independent research and proxy advisory firm, today announced the launch of the Risk Monitor, a tool that enables investors to understand the potential risk of their portfolio based on accounting, legal and regulatory matters that are often overlooked or poorly understood by sell side analysts.