DUBLIN, Ireland and GREENVILLE, North Carolina, April 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- University Study Confirms Positive Health Benefits Of Casual Gaming

East Carolina University reveals the results of a 6-month randomized, controlled study that confirms positive health benefits of so-called "casual" video games. The family-friendly puzzle / word games used in the study - Bejeweled 2, Peggle and Bookworm Adventures - are made by PopCap Games, whose customer surveys last year indicated similar casual gaming benefits. Additional study data, including detailed charts, can be found at http://www.ecu.edu/biofeedback.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, April 28 /PRNewswire/ --

Terumo Heart, Inc. announced a presentation at the recent ISHLT meeting in Boston. The presentation entitled "Long Term Circulatory Support with the DuraHeart(TM) Mag-Lev Centrifugal LVAS for Advanced Heart Failure Patients Eligible for Transplantation: European Experience" was delivered by Chisato Nojiri, M.D., Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer for Terumo Heart, Inc.

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REHOVOT, Israel and JERSEY CITY, New Jersey, April 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- Rosetta Genomics In-Licenses, on a Non-Exclusive Basis, Proprietary MicroRNAs for Research Applications From Rockefeller University

- Following This Agreement, Rosetta Genomics has Access to a Full Range of Potential MicroRNA Applications Based on These MicroRNAs

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, April 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- New DesignWare PHY IP Provides Designers with Complete, Single Vendor IP Solution for the PCI Express 2.0 Interface

Researchers at the University of Cincinnati and Florida State University have confirmed evidence of domesticated sunflowers in Mexico — 4,000 years before what had been previously believed.

“People sometimes ask “What is the big deal about sunflower?” says David Lentz, professor of biological sciences and executive director of the Center for Field Studies in the McMicken College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Cincinnati (UC).

BIRMINGHAM, England and SAARBRÜCKEN, Germany, April 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- ABN Amro and Alenia / Finmeccanica Report on the Positive Impact of Process Management on Strategic Decision Making and Business Performance

Two customers of IDS Scheer, the leading provider of Business Process Management (BPM), will speak at Gartner's BPM Summit in London, UK, from April 28 to 30, 2008. In an executive keynote and an end-user case study, ABN Amro and Alenia Aeronautica report on how strategic process management using ARIS Platform can leverage business performance. This year's theme at Gartner's Business Process Management Summit is 'Create and Sustain a Continuous Process Improvement Culture'.

ROCKVILLE, Maryland, April 28 /PRNewswire/ --

Stem cell company, Neuralstem, Inc., (Amex: CUR) announced today that the European Patent Office has granted Neuralstem a European patent EP0915968, covering the "Isolation, Propagation and Directed Differentiation of Stem Cells from Embryonic and Adult Central Nervous System of Mammals." The European patent has been validated in several European countries including France, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

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It's legal, it's gaining popularity among teenagers and young adults and it's one of the most potent hallucinogens around.

Brain-imaging studies performed in animals at Brookhaven National Laboratory have provided researchers with clues about why this increasingly popular recreational drug that causes hallucinations and motor-function impairment in humans is abused. Using trace amounts of Salvia divinorum – also known as “salvia,” a Mexican mint plant that can be smoked in the form of dried leaves or serum – Brookhaven scientists found that the drug’s behavior in the brains of primates mimics the extremely fast and brief “high” observed in humans.

NEW YORK and Bangalore, INDIA, April 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- US$150,000 Prize to Stanford's Koller for Groundbreaking Work in Making Computers Intelligent

LONDON, April 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- Lloyds TSB is the U.K.'s Most Popular Online Banking Brand

comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released the results of a study on the U.K. online banking sector, based on data from comScore Media Metrix and analysis from comScore Marketing Solutions. The report measured online banking activity, including the number of customers and the number of visits per month.

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