LONDON, May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- PriceGrabber.co.uk(TM), part of Experian, today announced a partnership with CNET Networks UK to deliver its online shopping comparison tool to two of the online publisher's most popular titles, CNET.co.uk ( http://www.cnet.co.uk) and ZDNet.co.uk (http://www.zdnet.co.uk).

PriceGrabber.co.uk will make it easier for readers to find the best possible price for a wide variety of gadgets that are reviewed across the CNET.co.uk and ZDNet.co.uk Web sites, including mobile phones, game consoles, MP3 players, laptops and televisions. In addition, PriceGrabber.co.uk will provide merchant ratings to enable users to find the right product, at the right price, from the right seller.

TORONTO, May 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- New fund to mark "mobile" as the new frontier

Research In Motion (RIM) (TSX: RIM; Nasdaq: RIMM), RBC (RY: TSX; RY: NYSE) and Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI; TSX: TRI; LSE: TRIL; Nasdaq: TRIN), today announced plans to launch the BlackBerry(R) Partners Fund, a US$150 million venture capital fund, to invest in mobile applications and services for the BlackBerry(R) platform and other mobile platforms. The Fund is to be co-managed by JLA Ventures and RBC Venture Partners.

LONDON, May 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- Personal, Express and Custom Telepresence Solutions Broaden Telepresence Accessibility

LONDON, England (May 12, 2008) - Teliris(1) (http://www.teliris.com), the leading telepresence(2, 3) provider, announced today a new continuum of telepresence solutions that breaks previous pricing barriers to open telepresence accessibility to enterprises and smaller businesses.

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According to the National Institute of Mental Health, social anxiety disorder affects approximately 15 million American adults and is the third most common mental disorder in the United States, after depression and alcohol dependence.

The essential feature of the disorder is the fear of being evaluated by others, with the expectation that such an assessment will be negative and embarrassing. It tends to run a chronic and unremitting course and often leads to the development of alcoholism and depression. The disorder most often surfaces in adolescence or early adulthood, but it can occur at any time, including childhood.

Using single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), researchers in The Netherlands were able to detect biochemical differences in the brains of individuals with generalized social anxiety disorder (also known as social phobia), providing evidence of a long-suspected biological cause for the dysfunction.

A new study of possible links between climate and geophysics on Earth and similar planets finds that prolonged heating of the atmosphere can shut down plate tectonics and cause a planet's crust to become locked in place.

"The heat required goes far beyond anything we expect from human-induced climate change, but things like volcanic activity and changes in the sun's luminosity could lead to this level of heating," said lead author Adrian Lenardic, associate professor of Earth science at Rice University. "Our goal was to establish an upper limit of naturally generated climate variation beyond which the entire solid planet would respond."

Lenardic said the research team wanted to better understand the differences between the Earth and Venus and establish the potential range of conditions that could exist on Earth-like planets beyond the solar system.

There exists much ethical controversy brought about by advances in biology and medicine and the relationship to religion. In a new essay in The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Laurie Zoloth takes an approach to medical ethics that draws upon Jewish texts, traditions, and philosophy to show how acting to change the world is indicative of this faith tradition.

Genetic explanations for how the natural world functions and why humans behave as we do can challenge what has historically been the moral province of religion: the questions of befalleness, suffering, healing. A question to be explored then is whether genetic enhancement of human capabilities, in addition to in their use in curing disease, is also a legitimate goal for biomedical science and technology.

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Unite shop stewards from the giant Grangemouth oil refinery in Scotland today (Monday, 12th May) tell their personal story of the dispute and the pressures it put on their families.

The interview, screened on Union TV, is a poignant portrait of the struggle of ordinary working people forced into the spotlight of the world's media.

Lead convenor for the Grangemouth plant, Mark Lyon, said:

"It was a very difficult time for everyone involved. We were overwhelmed with the support we received from our union and from the local community."

Insects have provided the inspiration for a team of European researchers seeking to improve the functionality of robots and robotic tools.

The research furthers the development of more intelligent robots, which can then be used by industry, and by emergency and security services, among others. Smarter robots would be better able to find humans buried beneath the rubble of a collapsed building, for example.

The EU-funded SPARK project set out to develop a new robot control architecture for roving robots inspired by the principles governing the behavior of living systems and based on the concept of self-organization.

Everyone knows there is a lot of crazy stuff on the internet, but did you know there is a lot of great writing about genes, genetics, and human diseases? And believe it or not, sometimes these pieces are written by people who know what they're talking about. If you're looking for what's new in human genetics, you've come to the right place.

Welcome to the 31st Gene Genie, a blog carnival dedicated to great blogging about human genes and how they impact our health. This Mother's Day edition includes an in-depth highlight of the growing industry of personalized genetics.