If you're anything like us, you're wondering how shockingly bad films like Battle for the Planet of the Apes get made. The simple reason is that sequels, even bad ones, tend to make more money than original films, according to a new study in the July Journal of Business Research.

And timing is everything – the sooner the period between releases, the better.

A team of researchers at Harvard University have modeled in the laboratory a primitive cell, or protocell, that is capable of building, copying and containing DNA.

Since there are no physical records of what the first primitive cells on Earth looked like, or how they grew and divided, the research team's protocell project offers a useful way to learn about how Earth's earliest cells may have interacted with their environment approximately 3.5 billion years ago.

The protocell's fatty acid membrane allows chemical compounds, including the building blocks of DNA, to enter into the cell without the assistance of the protein channels and pumps required by today's highly developed cell membranes. Also unlike modern cells, the protocell does not use enzymes for copying its DNA.

ATLANTA, June 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- Free Web Service Provides Webmasters Everywhere With the Ability to Increase Profits by Making Their Sites More Visually Appealing

ShrinkTheWeb (http://www.shrinktheweb.com), the premier offering from Imagion's "Creativity Initiative" is moving out of BETA to provide unique design tools based on website thumbnails. With an exclusive PRO feature set backed by great support and coupled with the most extensive free basic service in the industry, STW is bound to be a favorite of webmasters worldwide.

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CALGARY, Canada, June 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- Additional 18 Per Cent Interest in and Operatorship of Iris Marin License Area

Addax Petroleum Corporation (TSX: AXC and LSE: AXC) ("Addax Petroleum" or the "Corporation") announces today that it has, subject to partial partner pre-emption rights, acquired an additional 18 per cent working interest in the Iris Marin license area offshore Gabon by the acquisition of a subsidiary of Sterling Energy plc ("Sterling"). Addax Petroleum will hold up to a 51.33 per cent working interest in the Iris Marin license area and, subject to Government approval, intends to become the operator.

TEL AVIV, June 5 /PRNewswire/ -- All shareholders of the Company (the "Shareholders") are hereby cordially invited to attend:

(i) an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company (the "Extraordinary Meeting") to be held on July 16, 2008 at 10:00 (Israel time); and

(ii) an Annual General Meeting of the Company (the "Annual Meeting") to be held on July 16, 2008 at 15:00 Israel time.

The Extraordinary Meeting and the Annual Meeting shall be referred to jointly as the "Meetings").

Both Meetings are to be held at 2 Weizmann St., Tel Aviv 6423, Israel, floor 17 at the offices of Goldfarb Levy, Eran Meiri & Co.

LONDON, June 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Following a successful trial, law firm Mishcon de Reya has deployed Solcara's KnowHow and SolSearch software products within its UK business.

Mishcon chose Solcara over other products, due to its desire for effective knowledge management and enhanced internal communications and a need for a solution which fitted in with its existing IT systems.

Caren Gestetner, the Partner at Mishcon de Reya with responsibility for Knowledge Management commented on the deal:

LONDON, June 5 /PRNewswire/ --

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Former England footballer, Geoff Thomas is pressing the Government for urgently needed cash to develop and deliver new leukaemia treatments.

Thomas, a leukaemia survivor himself, is leading a presentation to the All Party Cancer Group of MPs at Westminster, at the invitation of MP's Julie Kirkbride and the committee Chairman Dr Ian Gibson on Monday June 9th.

He is urging the Government to back his 5 year, GBP20m public/private funding campaign to finance drug and other treatment trials to tackle leukaemia and other blood cancers.

LONDON, June 5 /PRNewswire/ --

Planalytics Inc., the global leader in Business Weather Intelligence(R), released its May WeatherCall(SM) report highlighting an excellent start to the month, followed by a sharp downturn. The beginning of May showed many positive signs due to favourable weather conditions and sales surged as pent up demand was released after a sluggish April. Temperatures were on the rise heading into the month, and consumers were quick to respond, purchasing warm weather goods such as T-shirts and garden products.

BOXBOROUGH, Massachusetts, June 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- X-Series Platform Enables Delivery of 'In-the-Cloud' Virtualised Firewall Services to Enterprise Customers

Crossbeam Systems, Inc., a leading provider of next-generation security platforms for high-performance networks, today announced that BT has deployed Crossbeam's X-Series Next Generation Security Platform to help protect its internal network as well as deliver a new generation of "in-the-cloud" virtualised firewall security services to enterprise customers.