Last week I described how John Oro discovered that five hydrogen cyanide molecules (HCN) could react to produce adenine (H₅C₅N₅) one of the primary components of nucleic acids. 

MENLO PARK, California, May 14 /PRNewswire/ --

- Use of the MitraClip(R) Therapy Continues to Expand in Europe

LEUVEN, Belgium, May 14 /PRNewswire/ --

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ThromboGenics NV (Euronext Brussels: THR), a biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of innovative treatments for eye disease, vascular disease and cancer, is today issuing a business update for the three month period ending 31 March, 2009.

MAIDENHEAD, England, May 14 /PRNewswire/ -- In the news release, Exciting new War Graves Education Website and Visitor Guide Launched issued on 14 May 2009 13:31 GMT, by The Commonwealth War Graves Commission over PR Newswire, we are advised by a representative of the company that a Notes to Editors section should append this release. Complete, corrected release follows:

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission today unveiled its innovative online education resource and visitor guide, which will help children and adults alike to better understand the sacrifice made by millions of servicemen and women during the two world wars.

PALM DESERT, California, May 14 /PRNewswire/ --

NEW YORK, May 14 /PRNewswire/ --

- Light Reading and Heavy Reading's Packet-Optical Transport Evolution Conference is the only US optical communications conference focused exclusively on packet and optical convergence and featuring speakers from all of the industry's leading service providers and vendor communities

A first observation of the Omega_b baryon -a quite exotic particle composed of a bottom quark and two strange quarks- has been recently published by the DZERO collaboration. Their paper claims to observe the so-far-unseen particle in 1.3 inverse femtobarns of Run II data (about a hundred trillion proton-antiproton collisions, that is).

The claim is based on the signal they find, 17.8 fitted events making a peak in the reconstructed mass distribution, a signal whose significance is computed to exceed five standard deviations: 5.4 of them, to be precise.

HOUSTON, May 14 /PRNewswire/ --

Endeavour International Corporation (Amex: END) (LSE: ENDV) today announced it has closed the sale of its Norwegian subsidiary, Endeavour Energy Norge AS, to VNG- Verbundnetz Gas AG, for the total consideration of USD $150 million.

In conjunction with the closing, Endeavour paid down approximately US$27 million in debt, reducing total net debt to approximately US$50 million. These proceeds will be directed toward supplementing cash flow from operations to fund three major field developments in the United Kingdom as well as exploration and new business development opportunities in the North Sea and United States.

TORONTO, Canada, May 14 /PRNewswire/ --

- Customers at Vision:09 - Clarity's Worldwide Annual Users' Conference - get First Look at Clarity FSR(TM) 6.5; Software That Automates Financial Governance Processes

Clarity Systems today announced general availability of Clarity FSR(TM) 6.5, a comprehensive, unified financial governance solution created for the Office of Finance to help improve financial processes and controls. As a single, unified financial governance solution, Clarity FSR supports the following critical financial functions:

PARIS, May 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that it has been selected by Unitech Wireless to support the initial launch of the company's GSM/EDGE mobile service offering. Alcatel Lucent will deploy turn-key GSM/EDGE networks in Kerala and Orissa circles.