LYON, France, February 14 /PRNewswire/ --

- Scientific Advances in Vaccine Research may Lead to Improved Vaccine Against Leading Cause of Death in Developing Countries

Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of the sanofi-aventis Group, announced today that it has signed a collaborative research and license agreement with the Statens Serum Institut of Denmark (SSI) for the development and marketing of a new vaccine against tuberculosis (TB), a disease that causes the death of two million people, worldwide, each year.

The American Chemical Society will be offering a virtual poster session in Second Life from selected posters at the Sci-Mix session taking place April 6, 2008 at the next national meeting in New Orleans. I'm helping out with that effort and I'm pleased to say that we have our first submission from Jodye Selco, Mary Bruno and Sue Chan: "Safe and economical chemistry inquiry for the K-12 classroom".

In December 2006, Dr. Mark Trexler authored a controversial paper called A Consumer’s Guide to Retail Carbon Offset Providers. He studied and ranked the numerous firms selling carbon offsets - also known as carbon credits - and named several firms with credible products. However, some of the most popular companies in the fledgling industry came out smelling, well, rather bad. The report caused quite a flap.

Dr. Trexler is Managing Director of EcoSecurities Global Consulting Services, an international carbon trading and consulting firm. I caught up with him at the noisy EUEC Energy and Environment Conference held at the end of every January in the foothills of Tucson, Arizona. Scientists, policy makers and business leaders from around the world gathered to tackle the fabulously difficult issues of climate change and energy.

Here are Dr. Trexler’s thoughts on topics including whether the Federal Trade Commission will find fraud in the carbon market during its ongoing investigation, when he thinks carbon credits work, and whether to buy them.

ST. DAVID'S, Bermuda, February 13 /PRNewswire/ --

Warner Chilcott Limited (Nasdaq: WCRX) announced today that it will issue its fourth quarter and full year 2007 financial results prior to the market opening on Friday, February 29, 2008.

In addition to issuing a press release, the Company will host a conference call for all interested parties on Friday, February 29, 2008 at 8:00 AM (Eastern Time) to review the results. To participate in the call, please dial +1-877-548-7906 in the United States and Canada or +1-719-325-4899 internationally.

Investors and other interested parties may also access the conference call via a simultaneous audio webcast by visiting http://ir.wcrx.com and clicking on Events & Presentations.

Nancy Simmons, do American Museum of Natural History, e restante equipa que publicou a descoberta na revista Nature, avançam que a nova espécie de morcego- Onychonycteris finneyi - ainda não possuiria a capacidade de eco-localização, ou seja, o típico "radar" dos morcegos.

LONDON, February 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- Spill Group Gains Scalability While Global Gamers Win Faster Speeds and Richer Content

Level 3 Communications' European Markets Group today announced that it has been selected by Spill Group, one of the world's leading generators of online gaming traffic, to provide that company's underlying network infrastructure and content delivery services in Europe and North America. These services enable Spill Group to meet the demands of the fast growing global online gaming community.

A comprehensive new study documents in detail the dynamics of parts of Greenland’s ice sheet, important data that have long been missing from the ice sheet models on which projections about sea level rise and global warming are based.

The research is published this month in the Journal of Glaciology, also demonstrates how remote sensing and digital imaging techniques can produce rich datasets without field data in some cases.

Traditionally, ice sheet models are very simplified, according to Beata Csatho, Ph.D., assistant professor of geology and lead author of the paper. The implications of these richer datasets may be dramatic, Csatho said, especially as they impact climate projections and sea-level rise estimates, such as those made by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

The traditional idea of the balance of nature gets quite a beating by a study that appears in the current issue of Nature. Using a long-term laboratory experiment, the authors conclude that, even under constant conditions, all species in a food web continued to fluctuate in a chaotic fashion. Chaos makes long-term prediction of species abundances impossible.

Theoretical ecologists already argued in the 1970s that populations of plants and animals might fluctuate in an unpredictable manner, even without external influences. These predictions, derived from chaos theory, attracted a lot of debate. However, only few scientists believed that species in real ecosystems would truly fluctuate in a chaotic fashion.

BARCELONA, Spain and SUNNYVALE, California, February 13 /PRNewswire/ --

mywaves, the largest mobile video destination, today announced that its free mobile video service was selected as the best mobile video service by the GSMA Mobile World Congress. In winning the award, mywaves beat out mobile media powerhouses including MTV International, Sony Pictures Television International, Telestra Corporation and Vodafone. The award was given at the Global Mobile Awards Gala Dinner during the GSMA Mobile World Congress (previously 3GSM), one of the world's largest communications conferences.

BARCELONA, Spain, February 13 /PRNewswire/ --

China Mobile announced today that it is set to join LTE (Long Term Evolution) trials already being carried out by Vodafone and Verizon Wireless, a joint venture of Verizon Communications and Vodafone.

The resultant three-way operator trials will focus on LTE FDD (the Frequency Division Duplex version of LTE) for use with paired spectrum allocations and TD-LTE (the Time Division Duplex version of LTE) as an evolution of current TD-SCDMA technology to enable the exploitation of unpaired spectrum globally.