YOKNEAM, Israel and PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pennsylvania, May 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- The New Best Practice Statements Were Presented at the AUA Annual Meeting Being Held in Orlando, Florida

Galil Medical, a global leader in cryotherapy, announced today that the American Urological Association has introduced clinical guidelines with best practice statements for prostate cryotherapy. The guidelines state that cryoablation is a treatment option for men with clinically confined prostate cancer of any grade and that salvage cryoablation is a treatment option in men who have failed radiation therapy.

The description of an ancient amphibian that millions of years ago swam in quiet pools and caught mayflies on the surrounding land in Texas has set to rest one of the greatest current controversies in vertebrate evolution. The discovery was made by a research team led by scientists at the University of Calgary.

The examination and detailed description of the fossil, Gerobatrachus hottoni (meaning Hotton’s elder frog), proves the previously disputed fact that some modern amphibians, frogs and salamanders evolved from one ancient amphibian group called temnospondyls.

“The dispute arose because of a lack of transitional forms. This fossil seals the gap,” says Jason Anderson, assistant professor, University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and lead scientist in the study.

SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland, May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Biotherm Technologie AG, a Swiss-based corporation, supplies a process which produces diesel fuel and heating oil from used plastics and waste or bilge oil. The diesel is of gas station quality and meets Europe's EN 590 norm. For this innovative technology the company expects a major new market from Japan's commercial shipping fleet, which is one of the world's largest.

HOUSTON, Texas, May 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- Web Application Delivery Powerhouses Form Global Strategic Partnership to Provide End-to-End Application Delivery Solution

MILAN, Italy and FREMONT, California, May 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- Silicon Valley and Canada Presence Expanding Customer Reach Outside Europe as Part of Accent's Strategic Growth Plan - ASIC and IP Veteran Graeme Finlayson Joining Accent as the New SVP of WW Sales

Accent S.A., a leading fabless ASIC provider offering highly differentiated design and turnkey services for state-of-the-art SoC silicon solutions, today announced the opening of its North America operations, with new office locations in the Silicon Valley (USA) and in Ottawa (Canada). At the same time Graeme Finlayson has joined Accent's executive team as the new VP of WW Sales.

ATLANTA, May 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- New release streamlines and centralizes the view of your workload infrastructure

Stonebranch(TM), Inc., the innovation leader in Enterprise Systems Management, today announced the 3.2 release of its Universal Solutions Suite(TM). The 3.2 release gives Stonebranch clients a Single System Image(TM) approach to their IT infrastructure, streamlining their workload solutions and centralizing the view of all workload management activities through its Enterprise Execution Environment(TM).

New imaging research shows that brain activity differs in sleep-deprived and well-rested people. The study, in the May 21 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience, shows that individuals who are sleep-deprived experience periods of near-normal brain function, but these periods are interspersed with severe drops in attention and visual processing.

They have shown for the first time what happens to the visual perceptions of healthy but sleep-deprived volunteers who fight to stay awake, like people who try to drive through the night. The scientists found that even after sleep deprivation, people had periods of near-normal brain function in which they could finish tasks quickly. However, this normalcy mixed with periods of slow response and severe drops in visual processing and attention.

During imaging, participants did a task that required visual attention. Researchers showed them large letters composed of many smaller letters. Participants were asked to identify either the large or small letters and to indicate their responses by pushing a button.

Using data from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft and two telescopes on or near Earth, an international team of scientists has found that one of the solar system’s largest and newest storms – Jupiter’s Little Red Spot – has some of the highest wind speeds ever detected on any planet.

Jupiter’s "LRS" is an anticyclone, a storm whose winds circulate in the opposite direction to that of a cyclone – counterclockwise, in this case. It is nearly the size of Earth and as red as the similar, but larger and more well known, Great Red Spot (GRS). The dramatic evolution of the LRS began with the merger of three smaller white storms that had been observed since the 1930s. Two of these storms coalesced in 1998, and the combined pair merged with a third major Jovian storm in 2000. In late 2005 -- for reasons still unknown -- the combined storm turned red.

REHOVOT, Israel and NORTH BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, May 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- First Diagnostic Test Based on Company's microRNA Technology Submitted for Regulatory Approval to the New York State Department of Health by Columbia University Medical Center - Additional West Coast Clinical Laboratory to Validate and Offer Tests Based on Rosetta Genomics' microRNA Technology - Two Additional microRNA-Related Patents Allowed

Rosetta Genomics, Ltd. (NASDAQ: ROSG), a leading molecular diagnostics company, reported today its consolidated financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2008 and business highlights.

Researchers from the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have unveiled unveiling a grasshopper-inspired jumping robot that weighs a miniscule 7 grams but can jump 1.4 meters - more than 27 times its body size. That's ten times farther for its size and weight than any existing jumping robot.

These jumpers could be fitted out with tiny sensors to explore rough, inaccessible terrain or to aid in search and rescue operations. "This biomimetic form of jumping is unique because it allows micro-robots to travel over many types of rough terrain where no other walking or wheeled robot could go," explains EPFL Professor Dario Floreano. "These tiny jumping robots could be fitted with solar cells to recharge between jumps and deployed in swarms for extended exploration of remote areas on Earth or on other planets."