PARIS, April 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Uzbekistan's permanent representative to UNESCO, Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva, launches Uzbekistan 2020 - a charity fund dedicated to developing cultural, intellectual and human exchanges between Western Europe and Uzbekistan.

Uzbekistan 2020 will be inaugurated on April 8th 2009, during a gala dinner with many eminent personalities, at Paris' Museum of Modern Art: amongst them, Former First Lady Mrs. Bernadette Chirac and Professor Khayat. These personalities will take part in an auction which will benefit to the Claude Pompidou Foundation.

HOUSTON, April 8 /PRNewswire/ --

PRINCETON, New Jersey, April 8 /PRNewswire/ --

BioWa, Inc. announced today that it has entered into a license agreement with sanofi-aventis (EURONEXT: SAN and NYSE: SNY), providing the global healthcare company with access to BioWa's POTELLIGENT(R) Technology platform for the research, development and commercialization of their antibody therapies with enhanced antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC).

PARIS, April 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Uzbekistan's permanent representative to UNESCO, Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva, launches Uzbekistan 2020 - a charity fund dedicated to developing cultural, intellectual and human exchanges between Western Europe and Uzbekistan.

Uzbekistan 2020 will be inaugurated on April 8th 2009, during a gala dinner with many eminent personalities, at Paris' Museum of Modern Art: amongst them, Former First Lady Mrs. Bernadette Chirac and Professor Khayat. These personalities will take part in an auction which will benefit to the Claude Pompidou Foundation.

VIENNA, Austria, April 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- Liposuction and Breast Augmentation in one go

Many women feel uncomfortable with padding around the hips and small breasts. Until recently correction required two operations: One for liposuction, the other for breast enlargement with silicon and scalpel. Today breast augmentation with stem-cell-enriched own fat combines both procedures: The fat harvested in liposuction is enriched with body-own stem cells and used for natural breast augmentation.

AMERSFOORT, The Netherlands, April 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- Perzonae Aims to Vastly Improve on Apps Like Outlook or MSN

The new Dutch Internet communication service Perzonae is ready to compete with major international software companies like Microsoft, Google and Apple in the coming years. Today, Perzonae Unified Communications launches a innovative service that allows people to combine emails, chats, and later, calls and teleconferencing, in a more efficient manner, regaining control of their Internet communications. Less management, less junk, fewer distractions and interruptions, all saving users more time.

LONDON, April 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- Britons First to Benefit From Latest Heart Tablet Prasugrel (Efient(R) Black Triangle Drug)

UK patients are the first to benefit from the launch of a new heart drug prasugrel (Efient), following authorisation by the European Medicines Agency (EMEA). The availability of prasugrel offers fresh hope to patients who have unstable angina or have had a heart attack - known as Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS)(1) - who undergo a PCI* procedure (angioplasty) to re-open a narrowed or blocked artery. When taken with aspirin, data shows that prasugrel may help prevent further cardiovascular events (such as a heart attacks and stroke) in these patients.(2)

SAN DIEGO, April 8 /PRNewswire/ --

-- Transaction Brings Growth Opportunities in Transplant Diagnostics, Genetic Testing and Pharmaceutical Services, Accelerates European Expansion Strategy --

Gen-Probe (Nasdaq: GPRO) announced today that the Company has completed its acquisition of Tepnel Life Sciences, plc, a rapidly growing molecular diagnostics and pharmaceutical services company based in the United Kingdom, for 27.1 pence (US$0.40)(1) per share, or approximately 92.8 million pounds sterling (US$136.4 million) in total.

REDMOND, Washington, April 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- Cybercriminals take advantage of increased online savvy and human nature.

Microsoft Corp. today released the sixth volume of its Microsoft Security Intelligence Report, which showed a significant increase in rogue security software and evidence that threats are predominantly targeting common third-party desktop applications. This version of the report also showed that the No. 1 reason for data breaches remains lost and stolen computer equipment.

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