DALLAS and REYKJAVIK, Iceland, April 3 /PRNewswire/ --

U.S. Preventive Medicine(R), (http://www.USPreventiveMedicine.com) the leader in prevention, and deCODE Genetics, the global leader in gene discovery, today announced they have signed a letter of intent to add genetic testing to expand both companies' personalized medicine services in the U.S. and internationally.

LONDON, April 3 /PRNewswire/ --

Teliris(1) has added three executives to head up day-to-day sales and marketing initiatives to further scale the company as it continues to lead paying deployments of telepresence(2) systems worldwide.(3)

At the company's European headquarters in London, Tony Smith(4) joins Teliris from Polycom as Vice President of European Sales, with the directive to establish and lead a European sales organisation designed to promote the Teliris solution to a wider range of prospects in their local language.

Reshaping of the DNA scaffolding that supports and controls the expression of genes in the brain may play a major role in the alcohol withdrawal symptoms, particularly anxiety, that make it so difficult for alcoholics to stop using alcohol.

DNA can undergo changes in function without any changes in inheritance or coded sequence. These "epigenetic" changes are minor chemical modifications of chromatin -- dense bundles of DNA and proteins called histones.

"This is the first time anyone has looked for epigenetic changes related to chromatin remodeling in the brain during alcohol addiction," said Dr. Subhash C. Pandey, professor and director of neuroscience alcoholism research at the UIC College of Medicine and the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center in Chicago, the lead author of the study.

A new study by researchers at UC Davis shows how our very short-term "working memory," which allows the brain to stitch together sensory information, operates. The system retains a limited number of high-resolution images for a few seconds, rather than a wider range of fuzzier impressions.

Humans rarely move their eyes smoothly. As our eyes flit from object to object, the visual system briefly shuts off to cut down visual "noise," said Steven J. Luck, professor of psychology at the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain. So the brain gets a series of snapshots of about a quarter-second, separated by brief gaps.

The working memory system smoothes out this jerky sequence of images by retaining memories from each snapshot so that they can be blended together. These memories typically last just a few seconds, Luck said.

CALGARY, Canada, April 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- 100% Interest in Iroko Exploration License Area in Prolific Rio del Rey Basin

Addax Petroleum Corporation ("Addax Petroleum" or the "Corporation") (TSX:AXC and LSE:AXC) announces today that it has signed a Production Sharing Contract ("PSC") with the Republic of Cameroon, relating to the Iroko exploration license area. Under the PSC, Addax Petroleum acquires a 100 per cent interest in the Iroko license area and is the operator. The Société Nationale des Hydrocarbures ("SNH"), the national oil company of Cameroon, holds a back-in right of 30% in case of a development.

PARIS, April 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- 29% Yearly Growth Confirms Leadership for the Seventh Year in a row

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) further reinforces its optical networking leadership by consolidating its #1 position with a 24% market share for the full year 2007, according to Ovum RHK.

PARIS, April 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) announced today that Tom Goodwin, Vice-President of Marketing & Communications for Alcatel-Lucent's Optics activities and Etienne Lafougère, President of Alcatel-Lucent's submarine network activity will give a joint media tutorial on Optics on April 8, 2008 at 3.00 PM Paris time (9 AM New York time).

LONDON, April 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- ATTN: London Correspondents and Political Editors

Diana Holland, Assistant General Secretary said: "Unite is appalled by the comments made by Nicholas Eriksen on violence towards women. The fact that the BNP have been forced to drop this candidate does not take away from the reality that they are a racist organisation with abhorrent views on women and ethnic minorities. This serves as a clear reminder of what the BNP stand for and why it is so important that they are beaten.

TAMPA, Florida, April 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- Provides Customers With Advanced New Content Quota Management Technology

NORTHERN, global providers of flexible, easy to administer storage resource management software solutions, today makes two important announcements. First, the release of a new version of Northern Storage Suite that is tailored to the needs of EMC(R) Celerra(R) IP storage system customers and second, the availability of this new version through EMC Select. This will enable customers to purchase state-of-the-art content quota management software from Northern directly from EMC and its partners. EMC Select helps customers easily acquire all the required components that comprise an information infrastructure.

IRVINE, California and LONDON, April 3 /PRNewswire/ --

Endeavors Technologies, the pioneer in application streaming and virtualization technology, and its parent company, Tadpole Technology plc, today announced the immediate availability of Application Jukebox Enterprise Edition and Application Jukebox SaaS Edition. Application Jukebox is the next-generation application virtualization and streaming solution that provides a highly flexible and secure platform for on-demand application delivery.