LONDON, April 17 /PRNewswire/ --

Chiltern International Limited (Chiltern), a global Clinical Research Organization (CRO) providing clinical development and staffing services in Europe, the Americas and India, today announced the acquisition of Vigiun, a full service Clinical Research Organization located in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Established in 1999 by Eduardo Forleo, MD, and Elisa Halker, BSN, Vigiun has extensive experience conducting clinical trials in a variety of therapeutic areas, in particular infectious disease, oncology, and respiratory.

Many computational biologists are interested in taking gene expression data, and using that data to computationally infer the underlying regulatory network that controls the observed pattern of gene expression.

Why? Because doing the experiments to determine the structure of these regulatory networks is hard; if we could use more easily obtained data to reliably tease out the network structure, we'd be able to quickly characterize networks in unexplored cell types or in poorly studied microbes.

Kepler has First Light. It is On! Team is a Go! Photons are Arriving!

This provocativly-titled NASA release states "NASA's Kepler Captures First Views of Planet-Hunting Territory", and has a good explanation of Kepler's capabilities. What I wish to tackle is why Kepler matters.

Kepler is a new space telescope with an awesomely wide field of view, seeing a huge 100 square degrees in a single frame, then zooming in closer with two other 'scopes. It is primarily a planet-hunting mission, but there will be much good science coming from Kepler-- some of which we can't even imagine yet.

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 17 /PRNewswire/ --

Despite Spain's pronounced economic slowdown, its telecom market will see mobile data revenue double within the next five years, driven by an uninterrupted expansion of mobile data and Internet-based services, according to a new report from Pyramid Research (www.pyr.com), the telecom research arm of the Light Reading Communications Network (www.lightreading.com).

I participated with pleasure last month to a four-day conference devoted to neutrino telescopes, NEUTEL 2009, in Venice. Venice is my home town, and walking in the morning to the conference venue in Palazzo Franchetti (see left), a big and beautiful palace on the Canal Grande, was a pleasant change from my usual commute by train with Padova.

COLLEGEVILLE, Pennsylvania, April 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Wyeth and Advocacy Community Mark Continued Commitment to Patient Care on World Hemophilia Day

In honor of the twentieth Anniversary of World Hemophilia Day, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, a division of Wyeth (NYSE: WYE), together with the World Federation of Hemophilia (WFH), announce the addition of five new partnerships to the WFH Twinning Program. Begun in 1994, the Twinning Program aims to increase the level of diagnosis and care for people with hemophilia by pairing emerging treatment centers and patient organizations with more established centers and organizations around the world. Wyeth has been the sole corporate sponsor of the program since 2001, which now includes a total of 31 partnerships worldwide.

GENEVA, Switzerland, April 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- In Line With its Recruitment Policy, Procter Gamble in Geneva is Appointing Around 150 People per Year, Half of Whom Already Reside in the Region

A completely new and auspicious recruitment session over two days

PG's Beauty Department has organised two days of recruitment, on 16 and 17 April 2009, at its strategic business headquarters in Geneva. The selection process is of particular interest. Between December last year and March, a total of 890 applications from Swiss and European students attending prestigious Universities such as St. Andrews, the Ecole Superieure de Commerce in Paris and Saint-Gall have been received via the website http://www.pgcareers.com.

LONDON, April 17 /PRNewswire/ -- On the 24th April 2009, Mr Motivator will be leading hundreds of people with multiple sclerosis (MS) in a workout specifically designed for people with the condition. The MS Trust is running the event to show the positive difference people with MS can make to their health.

This 'Move it for MS' challenge is being held at Twickenham Stadium to kick-off national MS Awareness Week, from the 27th April - 3rd May.

TEANECK, New Jersey, April 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Cognizant's IT Infrastructure Services recognized for 'strong delivery capability and solid value-based strategies for the future'

Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) today announced it was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave(TM): Global IT Infrastructure Outsourcing, Q1 2009 by Paul Roehrig, Ph.D. Cognizant moved to the Leaders category for the first time in the benchmarking report, which evaluated 15 global firms with a track record of success in infrastructure services.

PARIS, April 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Moves EMEA Headquarters Into New Offices in Paris to Accommodate Growth

Bizanga, the global company behind the most scalable and full-featured email and message processing platform, today announced that it is expanding its EMEA headquarters to accommodate its growth in the region. With sustained demand from current and new customers, Bizanga is consolidating and expanding its currently distributed offices into one location in the historic heart of Paris.