SHANGHAI, April 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- Asian Game Industry Professionals Look to the Game Developers Conference for Incomparable Learning, Networking, and Inspiration

Soy aglycons of isoflavone (SAI), a group of soybean constituent chemicals, have been shown to promote health in a rat model of the menopause. The research in  Nutrition&Metabolism shows how dietary supplementation with SAI lowers cholesterol, increases the anti-oxidative properties of the liver and prevents degeneration of the vaginal lining.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- Manos to Serve as Senior Vice President of Technical Services

Recently I saw this Horizon programme on BBC2: Horizon - 2008-2009 - 8. Who Do You Want Your Child to Be?

BULVERDE, Texas, April 8 /PRNewswire/ --

Futurex, an innovator in hardware data encryption security solutions, announces the opening of an office in Bristol, England and the addition of Roland Allen to serve as Futurex's Director of Sales - International.

In an effort to capture on the growing customer demand of Futurex's innovative encryption solutions, Futurex has opened a European office located in Bristol, England. With the need for data encryption security solutions increasing globally, Futurex is excited about establishing an office in the UK, said Brett Smith, CEO and President of Futurex. A presence in Europe will help Futurex expand into high growth markets in EMEA and the Pacific Rim, thereby further broadening our global reach, Smith added.

Science has come one step closer to developing practical methods of gene therapy. Viable gene therapy means treatment for currently untreatable diseases including the vast amount of genetic disorders affecting millions world-wide.

According to a new study published by the Mayo Clinic, patients with Parkinson disease (PD) have another problem to deal with. Researchers have found that one in six patients taking therapeutic doses of
certain prescription drugs for management of PD have developed troubling behavioral symptoms. The most problematic symptoms include compulsive gambling and hypersexuality.

PARIS, April 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- The Project Will Link Countries in Southern Africa, Western Africa and Europe, With High Capacity International Bandwidth

The WACS consortium and Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) have signed today a turnkey contract valued at several hundred million US dollars to deploy a new submarine cable network that will provide the first direct connection between Southern Africa and Europe. Named the West Africa Cable System (WACS), this 14,000 km-long submarine network system will bolster Internet and other communications capabilities to and from the African continent.

By combining the results of a number of powerful techniques for studying material structure at the nanoscale, a team of researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), working with colleagues in other federal labs and abroad, believe they have settled a long-standing debate over the source of the unique electronic properties of a material with potentially great importance for wireless communications.

The new study* of silver niobate not only opens the door to engineering improved electronic components for smaller, higher performance wireless devices, but also serves as an example of understanding how subtle nanoscale features of a material can give rise to major changes in its physical properties.

Portuguese scientists discovered a new molecular mechanism that allows gamma herpes viruses to chronically infect patients and helps to explain why these patients present an abnormally high incidence of the lymphocyte (or white blood cell) cancer lymphoma, particularly when their immune system is compromised.

The research, just published in the advance online edition of The Embo Journal, reveals how these viruses mimic the host molecular machinery to shutdown NF-kB –a key regulatory protein complex involved in cell division and death – on infected lymphocytes, and how this - probably by disrupting the cells normal regulatory systems - creates the conditions for the development of lymphomas.