Dave Cooper’s pet mantis, Cinco Zapatos, was a good-looking Giant African Mantis with a notable distinguishing feature: her sixth leg was missing.  It didn’t seem to hamper her much.  Her first weeks as Dave’s insect familiar were uneventful until Dave returned from a three-day trip to find that Cinco Zapatos had molted—and had become Seis Zapatos in the process. Cinco Zapatos had regrown most of her leg.  

NEW YORK and BERLIN, April 9 /PRNewswire/ --

artnet is pleased to announce that it is publishing Artful Tom, the new memoir by Thomas Hoving, best-selling author and former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The memoir is being published exclusively on artnet in weekly installments beginning with Chapter 1, which is available in artnet Magazine today (http://www.artnet.com/ArtfulTom).

MCLEAN, Virginia, April 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- GMAC News Center Features Podcasts, Videos, Articles and Other Information About Graduate Management Education

- http://www.gmac.com/newscenter

The Graduate Management Admission Council(R) (GMAC(R)) has launched a new online News Center to provide journalists, business school professionals, and the general public with a multi-platform array of resources and information about graduate management education. GMAC is the owner of the Graduate Management Admission Test(R) (GMAT(R)).

The GMAC News Center, located on gmac.com, offers insight into the role MBAs play in the global economy through a mix of podcasts, videos, articles, and other features.

PALO ALTO, California, April 9 /PRNewswire/ --

Cell Biosciences, a provider of nanoproteomic analysis systems to life science researchers, today announced the closing of a US$10 million Series C financing led by its largest shareholder, the Wellcome Trust. Existing investors Domain Associates, Latterell Venture Partners, Novo A/S, Mitsui Ventures, Royal Bank of Canada and The Vertical Group also participated in the financing.

AUSTIN, Texas, April 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Borland Software Corporation (NASDAQ: BORL) (http://www.borland.com), the global leader in Open Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), today announced HP will include Borland's Open ALM portfolio of products such as Borland(R) StarTeam(R), Borland(R) CaliberRM(TM), and Borland(R) Together(R) in its software delivery infrastructure. This further strengthens the partnership originally formed between Borland and Electronic Data Systems (EDS), which HP acquired August 26, 2008.

In addition to using Borland's ALM products internally, the agreement provides HP the opportunity to resell Borland's portfolio and use the products to deliver application development services to clients around the world.

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona, April 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- Additional Presentations Underscore Potency, Binding Capabilities for Antibody Pipeline And Novel Technologies -

InNexus Biotechnology Inc. (Toronto Stock Exchange: IXS.V, http://www.ixsbio.com), a drug development company commercializing the next generation of monoclonal antibodies based on its technology, Dynamic Cross Linking (DXL(TM)), announced today that the company will be presenting new data on its lead preclinical candidate DXL625 (CD20) for the prospective treatment of Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma (NHL) at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), April 18-22, in Denver.

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 9 /PRNewswire/ --

South Africa's telecom market is in the midst of a dramatic change, as incumbent fixed-network operator Telkom SA faces increasing competition not only from mobile voice and data services but also from competitive fiber network buildouts, according to a new report from Pyramid Research (www.pyr.com), the telecom research arm of the Light Reading Communications Network (www.lightreading.com).

PETALUMA, California, April 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- Featuring US experts in topical dermatological drug development

Dow Pharmaceutical Sciences, Inc. today announced that it will hold a 1-day workshop on Topical Dermatological Product Development in the USA June 4, 2009 at the Hilton East Brunswick, New Jersey.

This workshop will focus on the unique problems and issues confronted during development of topical dermatological drugs intended for the US market.

Our line-up of dermatological experts for this workshop is exceptional, said Gordon Dow, Founder and Chief Technical Officer at Dow Pharmaceutical Sciences. Anyone considering development of a topical dermatological product should benefit from attending this focused workshop.

FLORENCE, Italy, April 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- Results Presented at the Annual Congress of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA)

ABILIFY(R) (aripiprazole), when used in combination with lithium or valproate, is a generally well-tolerated long-term treatment for patients with Bipolar I Disorder, who are partially non-responsive to lithium or valproate monotherapy.(1) The data presented at the annual congress for the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) report a favourable long-term safety profile for ABILIFY in combination with lithium or valproate.(1)

KREMS, Austria, April 9 /PRNewswire/ -- The IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems is being awarded the tender for the structural and academic development of the University of Buraimi, Oman. Therewith, one of Austria's most international Universities of Applied Sciences has been able to assert itself against five international competitors. The contract, which was signed on 7 April has a volume of 5.6 million Euro in the know-how segment. 40 million Euro are available for the entire project.

The Buraimi Project is the most far-reaching education export in Austrian history stressed Austrian Federal Minister Johannes Hahn. It emphasises the outstanding know-how to which we have access in the domestic university landscape.