TORONTO, July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Patheon (TSX:PTI), a global provider of drug development and manufacturing services to the international pharmaceutical industry, has completed a shareholders agreement and a sales and marketing agreement with Italy's BSP Pharmaceuticals, a company focussed on the development and manufacturing of cytotoxic pharmaceutical products. Under the terms of the sales and marketing agreement, Patheon will promote BSP's cytotoxic manufacturing capacity and development services. Mr. Aldo Braca, President, Patheon Europe will be President and Chief Executive Officer of BSP Pharmaceuticals. Patheon is in the process of identifying a successor to Mr. Braca and for a transitional period, Mr. Braca will fill both roles.

I'm back from the UCSD workshop on New Communication Channels for Biology held June 27-28, 2008. The talks were recorded and are now available here. The first day mainly consisted of talks while the second was very heavy on breakout sessions (see agenda). Probably the most beneficial part for me was seeing old friends or meeting in person several people I had only interacted with online previously. For example was nice to finally meet Dan Gezelter from the OpenScience project and Hilary Spencer from Nature Precedings. I also had a blast over enchiladas on Friday night with Mike Nieslen and Jen Dodd. Mike gave a very engaging talk on the Future of Science on Thursday night. The presentations were recorded and should be available within a week on the wiki link above - I'll post an update here when I am made aware of it.

Creationists and their intellectual cousins, intelligent design proponents, keep saying that scientists disagree as to “the truth” of evolution, and that the field is therefore in crisis, despite official attempts by scientists to deny any problem and unite under the evil cause of fighting “the truth” about Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. As is common in these circumstances, some creationist claims are in fact correct, but trivially so, while the use that creationists attempt to make of the claims themselves is highly (and possibly willfully) misleading. As a case in point, I am about to leave the United States for a trip to Vienna where I will be chairing a workshop on the status and future of evolutionary theory, the anticipation of which has been providing delight to creationists for the past several months.

The so-called “Woodstock of evolution” (not my term, and a pretty bad one for sure) will see a group of scientists, by now known as “the Altenberg 16” (because there are sixteen of us, and we’ll meet at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for theoretical biology in Altenberg, near Vienna) has been featured on blogs by a variety of nutcases, as well as the quintessential ID “think” tank, the Discovery Institute of Seattle. They have presented the workshop that I am organizing in collaboration with my colleague Gerd Müller, and the proceedings of which will be published next year by MIT Press, as an almost conspiratorial, quasi-secret cabala, brought to the light of day by the brave work of independent journalists and “scholars” bent on getting the truth out about evolution. Of course, nothing could be further from the (actual) truth.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, July 2 /PRNewswire/ --

Rotrex has developed a fully variable electrical driven supercharger for automotive and transportation markets.

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The first project is for a fuel cell hybrid solution, but the product is also targeted mild and full hybrids for normal combustion engines, whether based on gasoline, diesel, or bio-fuels.

The fuel cell hybrid solution is developed together with a German customer for a 25kW system based on a PEM fuel cell in combination with a battery and a supercapacitor. The cost efficient scalability and the modular development approach secure cost efficient solutions from 10kW up to 300kW.

TORONTO, Canada, July 2 /PRNewswire/ --

- Tranzeo's WiMAX Subscriber Units Achieve Silver Status in Redline Ecosystem Verification(TM) Program

Redline Communications Group Inc. (TSX and AIM: RDL), a leading provider of WiMAX broadband wireless products, today announced the addition of the Tranzeo Wireless Technologies' (TSX:TZT) WiMAX subscriber units to the Redline Ecosystem Verification(TM) ('REV') program. The Tranzeo products have achieved Silver status in the REV program which is designed to accelerate the deployment of interoperable WiMAX networks around the globe.

Charles Darwin (1809-1882) opened his first notebook about "the species question" in 1837, not long after his return from the voyage of the Beagle.  By 1838, he had developed the basic outline of his theory of natural selection to explain the evolution of species.  He spent the next 20 years developing the theory and marshalling evidence in favour of both the fact that species are related through common descent and his particular theory to explain this.  After receving word that another naturalist, Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), had independently come upon the same theory, he assembled his work for publication, first in a joint paper with Wallace presented to the Linnean Society of London in 1858 and then his "abstract", On the Origin of Species, in 1859.

Some authors have argued that Edward Blyth (1810-1873), an acquaintance of Darwin's, developed the central idea of selection in an 1835 paper in the Magazine of Natural History.  For example, Eiseley and Grote (1959) claimed that "the leading tenets of Darwin's work -- the struggle for existence, variation, natural selection and sexual selection are all fully expressed in Blyth's 1835 paper", from which they then quoted the following:

WASHINGTON, July 2 /PRNewswire/ --

This past week, the 3rd Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) international domain abuse forum was held in Paris to coincide with one of the most contested ICANN meetings in years. Brands from around the world gathered at the CADNA forum with academic and business leaders to discuss the future of the domain name space and what can be done to improve the landscape for consumers and brand owners alike.

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DUBLIN, Ireland, July 2 /PRNewswire/ --

SunGard has acquired Delphi Technologies Limited (http://www.delphi.ie ), a Dublin-based provider of consulting services and managed professional services to Ireland's financial services, insurance and telecommunications industries. Delphi Technologies Limited (Delphi) will become part of SunGard's European Consulting Services business. The transaction, the terms of which were not disclosed, is not expected to have a material impact on SunGard's financial results.

Starve a fever, feed a traumatic brain injury. Recent studies by clinician-scientists from New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical Center found that patients with traumatic brain injury, or TBI, have a higher survival rate when their caloric intake is increased. Patients of TBI are fed through a gastric feeding tube inserted through a hole in the stomach for long-term eternal nutrition. The sooner the supplemental nutrition plan is initiated the better chance a patient has for survival, up to four times, researchers say.

PARIS, July 2 /PRNewswire/ --

- Fixed-Mobile Convergence Innovation Increases Employee Productivity and Lowers Cost

Orange Business Services is launching Unik for corporate, a fixed-mobile convergence solution that seamlessly integrates mobile and office phones. Employees can be reached anywhere by dialing one number, which rings their office and mobile phones at the same time.

Employees can effortlessly move from desk phone to mobile, and back. Voice messages go to one mailbox simplifying life. In addition, international calls from employees' mobile phones can be routed through their IP PBX to their Business Talk Global voice network, saving money. Business Talk Global is Orange Business Service's international voice offering.