LONDON, December 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Following the DH announcement to pilot the availability of oral contraception through Patient Group Directions (PGD), David Pruce, Director of Practice and Quality Improvement at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, said:

"The Society supports the Department of Health proposal to pilot supply of the contraceptive pill through PGD, which are written instructions for the supply or administration of medicines to groups of patients without an individualised doctor's prescription."

BAAR, Switzerland, December 12 /PRNewswire/ -- DWM Petroleum AG (100% subsidiary of Manas) (DWM) & Santos International Ventures Pty Ltd. (Santos) have entered into an Option Agreement under which Santos has a unilateral option to elect for the those parties to execute at a later stage, a Farm In Agreement for a 70% interest in DWM's Novobod Tajikistan License and a proposed North Tajik licence. Manas expects the North Tajik Licence to be granted to Somon in the near future.

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, December 12 /PRNewswire/ --

Agendia makes its breast cancer prognosis test, MammaPrint(R), available to U.S. patients after receiving two clearances from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its test. The first clearance in February of this year cleared MammaPrint(R) as an In Vitro Diagnostic Multivariate Index Assay (IVDMIA) for use in breast cancer prognosis. In June of this year, Agendia received a second clearance for the test in conjunction with RNARetain(R)(i), an RNA stabilizing solution allowing shipping of tumor biopsies at ambient temperature, greatly facilitating the logistical process of sample handling.

Cellular processes, such as when to multiply, are often regulated by switches that control the frequency and timing of interactions between proteins. North Carolina State University scientists have discovered the way in which a specific protein-protein interaction prevents the cell from turning one of its switches off, leading to uncontrolled cell proliferation – one of the hallmarks of cancer.

In a paper published in Structure, the researchers show for the first time that the interaction between a rogue version of a specific protein called Ras and its binding partner protein Raf can block the switch from being turned off.

AUSTIN, Texas, December 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- Supported by REAL SQL Server - 600,000 requests daily with no downtime

REAL Software, a leading producer of cross-platform development software for Windows, Macintosh OS/X and Linux, has launched an expanded global web presence to reflect its international reach. The site is now available in Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese and for the first time, Spanish. The dynamic functions of the site are supported by REAL Software's REAL SQL Server, which has handled up to 600,000 requests a day (20 million requests per month) with zero downtime.

AUSTIN, Texas, December 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- DocuSender(TM) Enables a Scanner to E-Mail and Fax Without Using a PC

Ringdale, Inc., a technology leader in network enhancing connectivity solutions, today announced the availability of the ModuLAN(R) DocuSender(TM) - a document scan to e-mail or fax appliance. This unique device works with popular USB-based scanners to provide scan to e-mail or scan to fax functionality, without the need for a PC.

The compact DocuSender connects directly to an Ethernet network, a phone line using Ringdale's PCMCIA modem technology and a compatible scanner. The user scans the document to an e-mail address or fax number using DocuSender's touch panel keypad with digital display.

LONDON, December 12 /PRNewswire/ -- PureCircle, which develops and manufactures natural food ingredients for the global food and beverage industry, is pleased to announce that it has entered into an exclusive agreement with a Korean food ingredient company, for the supply of its co-product SWETA range of high intensity sweetener ("HIS") into the Korean market. PureCircle considers the Korean market to be strategically important for SWETA as well as offering significant growth prospects given the extent to which stevia-derived HIS products are already being consumed.

Scientists discover that warm-water species that once thrived in Danish waters are returning

Scientists studying ancient fish bones in Scandinavia have discovered that warm-water species like anchovies and black sea bream that once thrived in Danish waters during a prehistoric warm period are now returning.

The transition from apes to humans may have been partially triggered by the need to stand on two legs, in order to safely carry heavier babies. This theory of species evolution presented by Lia Amaral from the University of São Paulo in Brazil has just been published online in Naturwissenschaften.

For safety, all nonhuman primates carry their young clinging to their fur from birth, and species survival depends on it. The carrying pattern changes as the infant grows. Newborns are carried clinging to their mother’s stomach, often with additional support.

Months later, infants are carried over the adult body usually on the mother’s back, and this carrying pattern lasts for years in apes. However, this necessity to carry infants safely imposes limits on the weight of the infants.

LUDWIGSHAFEN, Germany, December 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- The New Edition of BASF's Innovation Podcast "Chemistry of Innovations" Talks About Printable Electronics.

We still have got a bit to go before we will have electronic newspapers. But still, with the help of printing technology, it is already possible today to produce not only newspapers but even electronic circuits. This allows an amazingly wide range of products and applications - from heated insoles for your shoes to complex circuits and even transistors. Electrographic Ink without color pigments but with very special liquid synthetic materials, so called polymers, enables to print electronics. So theoretically you could even print out electronics elements with a normal inkjet printer.