DUSSELDORF, Germany, February 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Mr. Gerhard Schulze is appointed Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Gerresheimer AG with effect from February 25, 2008.

Mr. Lionel Assant, partner of Blackstone Group International Ltd., London, has resigned from the office of Chairman but continues to be a member of the Supervisory Board.

Gerresheimer is a pharmaceutical & life science supply and services company with market leading positions of specialty products made of glass and plastic. Gerresheimer owns 41 production sites in Europe, America and Asia and employs approximately 10,800 employees worldwide.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland and NEWTOWN, Pennsylvania, February 26 /PRNewswire/ --

- Products and Pipeline to Enhance Galderma's Position in Dermatology

Galderma Pharma S.A., a global specialty pharmaceutical company focused on dermatology, and CollaGenex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: CGPI) today announced a definitive agreement pursuant to which Galderma's U.S. holding company, Galderma Laboratories, Inc., will acquire all of the outstanding shares of CollaGenex at a price of US$16.60 per share in cash, representing approximately US$420 million for the equity of CollaGenex. The transaction was unanimously approved by the boards of directors of Galderma and CollaGenex.

The type of robot chosen as a personal companion by participants at the University of Hertfordshire Science and Technology Research Institute’s (STRI) Showcase next week will very much depend on their personality type.

This is a recent finding from Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn’s team at the university’s School of Computer Science, who took the robot out of the laboratory last year and had it living in a house nearby so that they could observe how it interacted with humans.

People with extroverted personalities will choose more human-looking robots with facial features and a human-like voice, results say, while introverted people tend to prefer mechanical-looking robots, more like a box on wheels with a metal head.

University of Utah scientists developed a new crime-fighting tool by showing that human hair reveals the general location where a person drank water, helping police track past movements of criminal suspects or unidentified murder victims.

“You are what you eat and drink – and that is recorded in your hair,” says geochemist Thure Cerling, who led the research effort with ecologist Jim Ehleringer. The new hair analysis method also may prove useful to anthropologists, archaeologists and medical doctors in addition to police.

“We have found significant variations in hydrogen and oxygen isotopes in hair and water that relate to where a person lives in the United States,” Ehleringer says.

There are currently no objective clinical laboratory blood tests for mood disorders. The current reliance on patient self-report of symptom severity and on the clinicians’ impression is a rate limiting step in effective treatment and new drug development.

Investigators from Indiana propose, and provide proof of principle for, an approach to help identify blood biomarkers for mood state. They measured whole-genome gene expression differences in blood samples from subjects with bipolar disorder that had low mood vs. those that had high mood at the time of the blood draw, and separately, changes in gene expression in brain and blood of a mouse pharmacogenomic model.

The rise of oxygen and the oxidation of deep oceans between 635 and 551 million years ago had an impact on the increase and spread of the earliest complex life, including animals, according to a study in PNAS.

The atmosphere had almost no oxygen until 2.5 billion years ago and it was not until about 600 million years ago that the atmospheric oxygen level rose to a fraction of modern levels. Geologists and evolutionary biologists have speculated that the rise of the breathing gas and subsequent oxygenation of the deep oceans are intimately tied to the evolution of modern biological systems.

PARSIPPANY, New Jersey, February 25 /PRNewswire/ --

Tanager AudioWorks, Inc. today announced the availability of their Chirp(TM) Virtual MIDI Keyboard Controller software. Chirp turns a user's computer keyboard into a MIDI keyboard controller, allowing a user to write or compose music without the need for a physical keyboard controller. Chirp takes advantage of the new Adobe AIR(TM) rich internet application (RIA) development environment.

(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080225/NYM127LOGO )

PARSIPPANY, New Jersey, February 25 /PRNewswire/ --

ORLANDO, Florida, February 25 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Mouse aimed at reducing cross contaminations including Influenza and MRSA.

Seal Shield LLC today introduced the new SILVER SEAL(TM) Washable, Antimicrobial Mouse at the HiMSS Healthcare Symposium in Orlando, FL. According to the company, the SILVER SEAL(TM) Mouse is the world's first computer mouse to be fully submersible, dishwasher safe, and manufactured from SILVER SEAL(TM) Antimicrobial plastic. The new SILVER SEAL(TM) mouse has been created to help reduce the risk of cross contaminations, including Influenza and the "superbug," MRSA. The new SILVER SEAL(TM) Mouse is a companion product to the company's SILVER SEAL(TM) Washable, Antimicrobial Keyboard, which began shipping earlier this month.

SAN FRANCISCO, February 25 /PRNewswire/ --

- Partnership with Acceso, a company part-owned by Havas Media, will further extend Zinio in Europe and Latin America

Zinio (http://www.zinio.com), the world's biggest provider of magazines online, is announcing two pivotal initiatives today: the launch of an online 'global newsstand', a website where consumers can buy hundreds of different leading magazines from around the world and view the actual pages instantly on-screen; and, secondly, a partnership spanning Europe and Latin America with Acceso Group, a company part-owned by both Havas Media -- the media division of Havas, one of the largest communication and advertising groups worldwide -- and ISP.