FREMONT, California, April 1 /PRNewswire/ --

- NeoVista's Novel Device Takes First Step Towards Commercialization in European Market

NeoVista, Inc. today announced that it recently received approval from BSI Product Services to apply the CE Marking to the company's focal epiretinal brachytherapy device, utilized in a new treatment for wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD). With CE Marking approval (also known unofficially as "CE Mark") NeoVista now has the ability to distribute and sell its product throughout all EU countries, offering a new treatment option for two million Europeans who are afflicted with wet AMD.

MUNICH, Germany, April 1 /PRNewswire/ -- By 2010 revenues from production of PV products will have nearly doubled in Germany and investment volumes will have increased by 67%. These are the assessments, based on surveys with 345 companies, of the research institutes Ifo in Munich and EuPD in Bonn. The Photovoltaic Technology Show 2008 (April 2-4, 2008) is one of the world's leading PV trade fairs and Invest in Germany will be there to present Germany's advantages as a location for PV investment.

ANDOVER, England, April 1 /PRNewswire/ -- HSA's Annual Dental Survey 2008 has revealed that 1 in 5 of UK adults have put off visiting the dentist because they are concerned about the cost. The survey, by the Healthplan provider of nearly 1,000 consumers by independent research agency TNS, also found that over a quarter of adults believe that looking after their oral health is unaffordable. This could reveal a worrying picture for our future oral health.

READING, England, April 1 /PRNewswire/ -- DediPower, one of the UK's fastest growing managed hosting providers, has been selected by Triad Computer Services Limited, to host their business critical IT infrastructure in DediPower's Thames Valley Hosting Centre.

Higher organisms do not have a “cost of complexity” — or slowdown in the evolution of complex traits — according to a report by researchers at Yale and Washington University in Nature.

Biologists have long puzzled over the relationship between evolution of complex traits and the randomness of mutations in genes. Some have proposed that a “cost of complexity” makes it more difficult to evolve a complicated trait by random mutations, because effects of beneficial mutations are diluted.

LEUVEN, Belgium, April 1 /PRNewswire/ --

- Trial Results Expected Mid-2008

ThromboGenics NV (Euronext Brussels: THR), a biotechnology company focused on vascular diseases, eye diseases and cancer, today announces that it has completed patient enrolment for its Phase IIb MIVI III trial in the United States. This study is designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of Microplasmin in vitrectomy (MIVI III - Microplasmin for Vitreous Injection).

PHILADELPHIA and LONDON, April 1 /PRNewswire/ --

- 162 New Journals Enrich Current Coverage With Regional Perspective

Thomson Scientific, a leading provider of information solutions to the worldwide research and business communities, today announced that 162 regional social science journals have been added to Web of Science. The newly identified collection contains journals that typically target a regional rather than international audience by approaching subjects from a local perspective or focusing on particular topics of regional interest.

Democratic consultant Donna Brazile brought home America’s reluctance to talk openly about race in a New York Times article that preceded the Barack Obama speech that now has the whole nation buzzing. In essence, she said in her quote, any serious discussion about race has the effect of clearing a room.

Brazile’s remark and the presidential hopeful’s groundbreaking speech about a subject that politicians generally tiptoe around in public hint at the complexities of race relations in America today. As we approach the second decade of the 21st century, research shows that many Americans feel anxious during interracial interactions whether or not race is even mentioned.

Now a new study from Northwestern University suggests that whites who are particularly worried about appearing racist seem to suffer from anxiety that instinctively may cause them to avoid interaction with blacks in the first place.

Researchers at the University of Rochester have digitally reproduced music in a file nearly 1,000 times smaller than a regular MP3 file - a a 20-second clarinet solo encoded in less than a single kilobyte.

The achievement, announced today at the International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing held in Las Vegas, is not yet a flawless reproduction of an original performance, but the researchers say it's getting close.

"This is essentially a human-scale system of reproducing music," says Mark Bocko, professor of electrical and computer engineering and co-creator of the technology. "Humans can manipulate their tongue, breath, and fingers only so fast, so in theory we shouldn't really have to measure the music many thousands of times a second like we do on a CD. As a result, I think we may have found the absolute least amount of data needed to reproduce a piece of music."

As gas prices continue to climb, alternative fuels get a lot of attention but how close are they?

Scientists atArgonne National Laboratory are working to chemically manipulate algae for production of the next generation of renewable fuels – hydrogen gas.

Some varieties of algae, a kind of unicellular plant, contain an enzyme called hydrogenase that can create small amounts of hydrogen gas. Tiede said many believe this is used by Nature as a way to get rid of excess reducing equivalents that are produced under high light conditions, but there is little benefit to the plant.