CHICAGO, April 2 /PRNewswire/ --

- Leading Expert Discusses Study During Late-Breaking Presentations at ACC

Final six-month, follow-up patient data presented yesterday during the late-breaking clinical trial sessions at the American College of Cardiology, suggest MyoCell(R) myoblast clinical cell therapy is a safe and potentially effective alternative treatment to standard medical therapy alone for improving heart function among patients with previously implanted cardiac devices who are experiencing congestive heart failure.

LONDON, April 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Intasoft, the UK change and configuration management specialists, are celebrating the worldwide release today, of version 2 of their web based change management software, IntaChange.

New for IntaChange 2.0 are Tasks, step-by-step guides that lead users through the workflow process. Tasks have been specially designed to help managers enforce their procedures and to help end users follow those procedures. They give users the what, when and why, improving communication at all levels. Tasks can also help organizations to comply with industry standards such as Sarbanes-Oxley, ITIL and CMMI.

DNA repair capacity is an important factor in cancer, inflammation, aging, and other human conditions. Radiation is something we can never avoid and it's responsible for a lot of medical problems.

Bdelloid rotifers have been able to give up sex and escape the usual drawback of asexuality – extinction - and still survive because they have evolved an extraordinary efficient mechanism for repairing harmful mutations to their DNA, say the Marine Biological Laboratory’s David Mark Welch, Matthew Meselson, and their colleagues.

What’s more, they have done so over millions of years of evolution, resulting in at least 370 species.

LONDON, April 2 /PRNewswire/ --

- Media Invited to use Institute of Psychoanalysis for Expert Opinion

The Institute of Psychoanalysis is offering itself as a resource for press and media, with a group of expert spokespeople available to comment on current affairs, contemporary social issues and culture.

Experts can comment on a range of issues affecting society today, from young people's issues such as suicide and eating disorders, personal issues such as parenting, relationships and sexuality, violence, problem behaviour and trauma.

MACCLESFIELD, England, April 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, (2nd April 2008), Cyprotex announces that it is introducing a new product line, Cloe(R) Select. Cloe(R) Select is a portfolio of bespoke studies which can be customised to individual customer requirements. It complements the current range of Cloe(R) Screen assays to provide ADME (absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion) and pharmacokinetic solutions from early discovery through to later stage development projects. As with Cloe(R) Screen, Cloe(R) Select meets the criteria set by the regulatory guidelines to provide constant confidence in the quality of the data.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 2 /PRNewswire/ --

Setting the stage for a better understanding of sender authentication as a technology to combat junk email, the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) has released a new white paper describing the practice as a foundation for protecting legitimate Internet mail. "Trust in Email Begins with Authentication" provides an overview of the technology by focusing on the standardized mechanisms in general use today, Sender Policy Framework (SPF), Sender IDentification Framework (SenderID), and DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM).

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Omega Centauri is visible from Earth with the naked eye and is one of the favorite celestial objects for stargazers from the southern hemisphere.

Although the cluster is 17,000 light-years away, located just above the plane of the Milky Way, it appears almost as large as the full Moon when the cluster is seen from a dark rural area.

Exactly how Omega Centauri should be classified has always been a contentious topic. It was first listed in Ptolemy’s catalogue nearly two thousand years ago as a single star. Edmond Halley reported it as a nebula in 1677. In the 1830s the English astronomer John Herschel was the first to recognise it as a globular cluster.

Now, more than a century later, this new result suggests Omega Centauri is not a globular cluster at all, but a dwarf galaxy stripped of its outer stars.

An international team of scientists, led by Prof Louise Harra, University College London, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, have found a source of the stream of particles that make up the slow solar wind using data from Hinode and SOHO.

The solar wind can have low or high speeds. The low-speed or slow solar wind moves at only 1.5 million km/h. The high-speed wind is even faster, moving at speeds as high as 3 million km/h. As it flows past Earth, the solar wind changes the shape and structure of Earth's magnetic field.

ESA’ s SOHO and Hinode Project Scientist, Bernhard Fleck says, “In the past, apart from creating beautiful auroral displays, the solar wind didn’t affect us directly. But as we’ve become increasingly dependent on technology, we are more susceptible to its effects. We’re learning that variations in its flow can dramatically change the shape of Earth's magnetic field, which can damage satellites, disrupt communications and electrical power systems.”

AUSTIN, Texas, April 2 /PRNewswire/ --

- Guarantees Price, Performance, and Value Leadership

Database-Brothers, Inc. (DBI) today introduced new performance tuning and space management tools for Oracle environments: Brother-Owl(TM) for SQL tuning, Brother-Wolf(TM) for space management, and Brother-Eagle(TM) Enterprise Edition for real-time performance monitoring. The new tools provide DBAs with greater insight into performance problems while proactively resolving issues for optimal business availability.

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Scottish astronomers have found a baby planet still in the stages of forming and encased within a 'womb' of gas.

The embryonic planet, thought to be the youngest ever seen, was discovered by Dr Jane Greaves of the University of St Andrews and colleagues from across the UK and the US.

The finding provides a unique view of how planets take shape, because the supporting images also shows the womb-like parent disk material from which the new planet formed. The 'protoplanet', called HL Tau b after its parent star HL Tau, could be as young as a few hundred years old.

Dr Greaves, of the School of Physics & Astronomy at St Andrews, explained, "The planet will probably take millions of years to settle down into its final form of something like Jupiter.