BARCELONA, July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- The winners of the Ferring Research Infertility and Gynaecology GrAnt (FRIGGA) are announced today at the European Society for Human Reproduction & Embryology Congress. The two winners of this new prize are the University Medical Centre Utrecht, The Netherlands and the Universitair Ziekenhuis (UZ) Brussel, Centre for Reproductive Medicine,Belgium.

The winning research institutions were selected for their outstanding proposals for fundamental research to help gain an increased understanding of the role of human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG) in assisted reproduction.

SOUTHAMPTON, England, July 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- First of a new generation of capacitive touch sense ICs

Atmel(C) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today the AT42QT2160 -- a touch controller IC combining touch key and touch slider functions in a single device. The AT42QT2160 can control up to 16 individual touch keys with a slider comprising between 2 and 8 of the touch key channels. In addition, the chip can also control up to 11 LEDs through a PWM output function that is controlled by the host, eliminating the need for an external LED controller.

LONDON, July 7 /PRNewswire/ --

ICE Clear Europe(TM), a wholly-owned subsidiary of IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE), today announced that it has reached consensus with LCH.Clearnet (LCH) on the technical issues to facilitate the movement of all ICE Futures Europe(TM) and ICE over-the-counter (OTC) trading positions from LCH to ICE Clear Europe. Under the technical framework, ICE expects the transition of clearing to ICE Clear Europe to occur during the month of August, with a specific transition date to be finalized in the coming days following consultation with clearing members.

The existing futures and OTC clearing arrangements between ICE and LCH will remain in effect until the transition is complete.

Millions of years of evolution have maximized the efficiency of how sea creatures move through water while humans have been trying to perfect streamlined designs for barely a century - but we're catching up.

Biologists and engineers from across the U.S. have been studying the flippers, fins and tails of whales and dolphins and discovered some features of their structure that contradict long-held engineering theories.

Dr. Frank Fish of West Chester University will talk about the impact these discoveries may have on traditional industrial designs on Tuesday 8th July at the Society for Experimental Biology's Annual Meeting in Marseille [Session A2].

HERTZLIA, Israel, July 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- All They Need is Just to Find Each Other

A new initiative by a web2.0 company comes to solve a long inherent problem in the advertisement market. Xywidgets which specializes in service oriented widgets, and that recently presented Bnarrator, a website narration widget, has opened http://www.Getadnet.com which is a meeting place between advertisers and ad networks.

The problem which Getadnet addresses is a communication barrier between the companies wishing to advertise their products or services, and the ad networks or the newer ad representative firms.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, July 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- Are they a keeper or should you catch and release? A new dating test from PlentyofFish.com will tell.

Just like your mother always said, "There are plenty of fish in the sea." She was warning you against settling for an unsatisfying romance. Markus Frind, founder and CEO of the free dating site PlentyofFish.com, proves the point with 700,000 daily member logins, and millions of romances since the site was started in 2003.

A genome sequence is a long sequence written in a four letter code—3 billion letters in the case of a human genome. How genomic code is deciphered is traditionally left to professional annotators who use information from a number of sources (for instance, knowledge about similar genes in other organisms) to work out where a gene starts, stops and what it does. Even the "gold standard" of professional annotation is an exceptionally slow process.

However, new crowdsourcing technology hopes to provide a faster solution. Don't cringe, scientists, but it's Wikipedia.

Andrew Su, John Huss III and colleagues have established a 'Gene Wiki', an online repository of information on human genes, within Wikipedia. They envision a network of articles, created by a computer program and enhanced by user comments, which will describe the relationship and functions of all human genes.

SAN FRANCISCO and LONDON, July 7 /PRNewswire/ --

Masdar Clean Tech Fund and Virgin Green Fund today announced the buy-out of DuraTherm, Inc., a petroleum and metal recycling business based in Texas City, TX. The transaction, structured as an asset acquisition, was supported by debt from HSH Nordbank AG and completed at an undisclosed valuation.

Using its patented DuraTherm Desorption(R) technology, the Company provides treatment services, either at its facility in Texas City or with its mobile units at a customer's site, for waste streams generated by petroleum and olefin-related industries. The proprietary technology produces "clean" residuals while maximizing the recovery of metal and oil values contained in the wastes.

A new study challenges the long-held belief that diversity of marine species has been increasing continuously since the origin of animals.

An international team carried out this decade-long study and concludes that most of the diversification occurred early on – relatively speaking.

"The general understanding for many decades has been that since the rise of the modern major groups of animals about 545 million years ago (i.e., since the beginning of the Phanerozoic Era), the diversity of animal life in the seas has undergone a roughly four-fold exponential increase," says Dr. Thomas D. Olszewski, a geology and geophysics professor at Texas A&M University. A steep increase in the diversity was believed to have occurred only between 145 million and 60 million years ago.

SALZBURG, Austria, July 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- Salzburg-Based Orderman Becomes Radiant's Global Headquarters for Mobile Solutions

Orderman, the world's leading manufacturer of wireless, customizable handheld ordering and payment devices for the hospitality industry, today announced their sale to Radiant Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: RADS), US market leader in POS solutions for the hospitality industry.

"Orderman's innovative, mobile devices are widely recognized in the European hospitality marketplace," said John Heyman, CEO of Radiant Systems. "This acquisition puts Radiant in an excellent position to further accelerate the adoption of mobile devices in the global hospitality sector and to bring additional innovations to market across all of the industries we serve."