VENLO, Netherlands, April 1 /PRNewswire/ --

- QIAGEN donates one million tests to expand access to HPV screening in the world's poorest countries

Results from an eight-year trial involving more than 130,000 women published today in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) demonstrate that in low-resource settings a single round of HPV testing significantly reduces the numbers of advanced cervical cancers and deaths, compared with Pap (cytology) testing or visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA). The trial used QIAGEN's (Nasdaq: QGEN; Frankfurt, Prime Standard: QIA) digene HPV Test, which detects high-risk types of human papillomavirus that cause cervical cancer.

Hi, I’m the Science Cyclops.

I was created from molecules of caffeine and genetically engineered organic pluats.  I was sent here by Zeus to inspire humans through my tales of terror and physical improbabilities while not helping him fight the Titans, because of the economy and all. 

First things first, let’s get this out in the open.  I get stopped on the street quite often and people always want to know one thing; how is your depth perception in battle so accurate when you only have one eye? 

NICOSIA, Cyprus, April 1 /PRNewswire/ -- After the success of their online rummy (http://www.rummyroyal.com/) software, RummyRoyal has decided to take go offline for a special tournament taking place in London, England on April 20th, 2009.

The LTDKA Kalooki (http://www.rummyroyal.com/how_to_play/kaluki/rules.html) Event that takes place monthly in a prestigious location in London, England is sponsored by RummyRoyal. RummyRoyal players living in the United Kingdom will get a chance to compete for free entry to the competition and these players will be hand picked to join the exciting tournament by RummyRoyal.

BROCKWORTH, England, April 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Vanguard Healthcare, which operates the UK national fleet of mobile operating theatres, has been acquired by its management from Nuffield Health, the UK's largest healthcare charity. The original founders of the business have re-joined the management in order to strengthen and support the team.

Vanguard's unique business provides equipped mobile healthcare facilities with staff to healthcare providers throughout the UK and Ireland. The fleet now includes mobile operating theatres, day surgery units, endoscopy suites, recovery wards and clinics. In November last year, the 100,000th NHS procedure was carried out on board a Vanguard mobile.

ROUBAIX, France, April 1 /PRNewswire/ -- To coincide with the launch of Intel's latest generation processor, OVH is offering an HG 2009 Revolution server with an integrated Xeon Nehalem from the American giant.

As a preview, and on the same day as the release of the new processor, OVH is offering its clients the opportunity to discover the technological advances of the Nehalem through an exclusive half-price offer (quantities are limited).

OVH launches its new high-end server offering: the HG 2009 Revolution, based on the new Intel processor. Among its many advantages, it is more eco- friendly and yet more powerful (up to 16 simultaneous tasks), multi-cored and multi-threaded.

LONDON, April 1 /PRNewswire/ -- The merger of Noble Denton and Germanischer Lloyd forms a fully integrated technical assurance and consulting company to serve the worldwide energy industries. The new entity will provide assurance, inspection, and consulting as well as project management on a worldwide scale. It will focus its worldwide services along the entire life cycle oil and gas - upstream, midstream, and downstream, renewables and energy installations onshore and offshore. This includes safety, integrity, reliability and performance management.

SUNNYVALE, California, April 1 /PRNewswire/ --

- Flexible 'Virtual Drive Test' and 'Fading Lab' Features Deliver Cost Efficiencies over Field Testing

Spirent Communications plc (LSE: SPT), a global leader in wireless infrastructure, devices and application testing, today introduced Virtual Drive Test and Fading Lab functionality on Spirent's SR5500 Wireless Channel Emulator (http://www.spirent.com/go/sr5500), the award-winning solution for wireless receiver performance testing. Virtual Drive Test allows rapid re-creation of RF conditions to bring real-world field testing of mobile devices into the lab. Fading Lab enables the creation or replay of highly-detailed, advanced radio environments from a wide range of data sources.

NAPA, California, April 1 /PRNewswire/ --

Senetek PLC (OTC Bulletin Board: SNKTY), a Life Sciences company engaged in the development of technologies that target the science of healthy aging, today announced plans for the creation of a new communication hotline for the expressed purpose of keeping the investment community updated on key events. Bi-weekly updates will be recorded on a designated call-in number which is targeted to be up and running in early May. In addition, callers will be able to leave their contact information regarding any questions they may have.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 1 /PRNewswire/ --

- New version of web-based collaborative prototyping tool allows teams to simulate rich Internet functionality in website wireframes and mockups.

Site9, a leading developer of collaborative web development software, today announced at Web2.0 Expo the release of ProtoShare 3.0. The new version of the popular interactive development tool contains many improvements and upgrades to further the collaborative website prototyping process. ProtoShare 3.0 has Rich Internet Application (RIA) simulations, an enhanced collaborative interface, and overall speed and performance improvements.

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CHICAGO, April 1 /PRNewswire/ --

- Web accessibility, usability and services drive daily usage and new revenues