New research calls attention to the role of the expanding American waistline in health and medicine.

Researchers at the American Association for Cancer Research’s Sixth Annual International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research presented some of the latest research linking obesity, diabetes and metabolism to cancer risk. Their findings link weight gain and diabetes to a variety of cancers affecting both men and women, including breast, prostate and colorectal cancer

Diabetes and hyper-insulinemia as predictors of colorectal cancer risk in a prospective cohort of women. Abstract no.

Measuring soot formation in a diesel engine is far from easy because the turbulent environment in the combustion cylinder means no two combustion cycles are the same. Furthermore, the measurements are difficult to reproduce as the pressure at which fuel is injected into the cylinder causes an extra source of turbulence.

Bas Bougie, a doctoral candidate at Radboud University Nijmegen created a glass cylinder with an engine so he could investigate soot formation and find ways to optimize diesel performance using laser light.

Laser Induced Incandescence (LII) can be used to investigate optimal engine conditions that reduce soot emission from the engine. LII can be deployed in different types of engines and with different fuels.

HATBORO, Pennsylvania, December 7 /PRNewswire/ --

It was announced today that IGCE, the conference division of The Sports Network, the premiere real-time sports wire service in the United States, will be "going green" for their April, 2008 event in Lisbon, Portugal. "We are not going to save the world, nor the environment," said Conference Coordinator, Amanda Manero, "but we are interested in making whatever contribution we can and 'going green' does not mean we are returning to the site of one of our prior efforts ... Dublin, Ireland. No workbooks and everything on disk, no flyers, no hard mailings and so forth. It also means catering to the market."

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, December 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- Summary: Genmab has Initiated a Phase I/II Safety and Dose Finding Study of HuMax-CD38 for the Treatment of Multiple Myeloma

Genmab A/S (OMX: GEN) announced today it has initiated a Phase I/II safety and dose finding study of HuMax-CD38(TM) for the treatment of multiple myeloma (MM). The study will include a maximum of 122 patients with MM who are relapsed or refractory to at least two different prior treatments and are without further established treatment options.

PITTSBURGH, December 7 /PRNewswire/ --

Vocollect, Inc., the world leader in Voice-Directed Work, today announced that it has named co-founder, chairman and chief operating officer Roger Byford as the company's new chief executive officer. Byford assumes the role effective today, succeeding Jack LeVan, who is leaving the company. Byford will remain chairman of Vocollect's board of directors. The company said that it will not seek a replacement for the role of chief operating officer.

FUZHOU, China, December 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- The Firm Warlords and the Online Game Warlords Online will be Shown Simultaneously

The first domestic online game (Warlords Online) based on the film of the same name, which is jointly produced by NetDragon (NetDragon Websoft Inc. (SEHK GEM 8288)) and Central Motion Picture Corp., will be tested officially for the first time on December 13. China's traditional recreational industry and emerging digital recreational industry will greet the first annual show of a landmark work, and it will become another important milestone in the development of China's recreational industry.

PARIS, December 7 /PRNewswire/ -- At the prize-giving ceremony for the UJJEF 21st "Communication and Enterprise" Annual Contest, on Thursday 29th November at Cirque d'Hiver-Bouglione in Paris, prizes were awarded for companies' most innovative communication strategies. SPIE was nominated in the e-communication category for its virtual library.

Constituting a vector for the Group image and a user-friendly tool benefiting from media convergence, the SPIE virtual library offers a new way of consulting and optimising the content of publications (brochures, activity reports, magazines, etc.) for uses both on-line (Internet, Intranet, Extranet) and off-line (interactive terminals, digital printing, etc.).

When paper becomes interactive

WAALWIJK, The Netherlands, December 7 /PRNewswire/ -- DOCdata N.V. today announces that DOCdata (UK) e-Holding Limited has increased their interest of 76% in the issued share capital of Braywood Holdings Limited in Witney (UK) with 9.6% to 85.6%. This share transaction results from the agreement with one of the three minority shareholders on the sale of his full remaining share interest in Braywood Holdings Limited, after he had resigned from his service with Braywood. The transaction deviates from the option agreement signed in November 2006, by which DOCdata would acquire over the four year period from 2007 to 2010 the remaining 24% of the issued share capital in four equal tranches of 6% each year from the minority shareholders.

LONDON, December 7 /PRNewswire/ -- David Brennan, AstraZeneca CEO, and senior management from AstraZeneca (LSE: AZN) (NYSE: AZN) and MedImmune discuss opportunities in the biologics field, R&D and portfolio progress plus the Group's current focus and priorities. Video interviews and transcripts are available now on http://www.cantos.com.

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DUSSELDORF, Germany, December 7 /PRNewswire/ -- The Kythera Award, founded in 2001 by the author and artist Gabriele Henkel, is awarded annually to particularly deserving artists with respect to cultural exchange between Germany and the Latin countries of Europe. The former recipients are publisher Klaus Wagenbach, film director Patrice Chéreau, conductor Claudio Abbado, architect Renzo Piano as well as art historian Dr. Sylvia Ferino in the K.H.M. in Vienna.