LUDWIGSHAFEN, Germany, March 12 /PRNewswire/ -- In this Podcast you will learn about how plant biotechnology can help to make crops more tolerant against climate stress.

Wild sex is a staple of nature films, but there is one sex scene David Attenborough has never narrated: the mating ritual of yeast. That's right: yeast. Sex isn't just limited to lions, birds of paradise, and aphids; single-celled fungi do it too. Although most people don't like to hear the words 'fungus' and 'sex' used in the same sentence, yeast mating is a remarkable phenomenon and worth a closer look.

You can see this amazing scene, played out billions of times every day in wine vats and under oak trees, captured on film. As is the case with most wild mating rituals, filming yeast sex requires great patience - yeast are slow to commit and even when they do, they don't rush things. The beginning of foreplay itself takes several hours, as you can see below:

DERRY, New Hampshire and COLOGNE, Germany, March 12 /PRNewswire/ --

Cedar Point Communications, a worldwide leader in integrated Voice over IP (VoIP) switching technologies for service provider and enterprise telecommunications, and NetCologne, one of the largest regional carriers in Germany, today announced an agreement that marks a major milestone for Cedar Point in Europe.

LONDON, March 12 /PRNewswire/ -- NHS Choices (http://www.nhs.uk), the digital 'front door' to the NHS, launches a new guide aimed to help people understand the different stages of coronary heart disease (CHD) - from avoiding CHD right through to living with the condition.

Based on NHS accredited information, the information pathway (http://www.nhs.uk/pathways/coronaryheartdisease/Pages/Landing.aspx) enables users to learn more about CHD in seconds. It provides them with clinically approved guidance to help them either change their lifestyle and lower their risk of getting the disease, or - for those diagnosed with CHD - become an expert on its management. This pathway is the latest addition to the NHS Choices' extensive Health A-Z index.

RESTON, Virginia, March 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- Report Analyzes Trends Across Worldwide Regions and 23 Individual Countries

comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today announced the availability of its new report, "Digital World: State of the Internet," for purchase. The report is the first publicly available, comprehensive global view of Internet usage trends across various worldwide regions, including in-depth spotlights on 23 countries.

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Obesity is associated with clear changes in gene-networks and the dysfunction of mitochondria, say researchers at the University of Helsinki and the National Public Health Institute - worse, the impacts of these cellular changes may aggravate and work to maintain the obese state in humans

Surprisingly, the genes most drastically affected by obesity were ones involved in the breakdown of a class of amino acids known as branched-chain amino acids. These changes in the obese twins were clearly associated with pre-diabetic changes in sugar metabolism and the action of the hormone insulin.

The researchers say that, while healthy eating habits and exercise are important, genes play some role in the development of obesity, so they studied rare cases of young (25 year old) identical twins with large differences in bodyweight and saw clear changes in the function of the cellular mitochondria.

SHEFFIELD, England, March 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- Addressing an Annual Global Market of Approximately 20 Million Units, Consumers in Both Residential and Business Sectors Could Drastically Reduce Their Annual Energy Costs and Carbon Footprint From Q3 2008 With Disenco 's Appliance

Disenco Energy plc today confirms commercial availability of its unique, micro-combined heat and power (m-CHP) appliance from Q3, 2008. The announcement follows evaluation of the performance of production units of its HomePowerPlant (HPP) appliance with engineering partners Prodrive and Enertek.

SAN MATEO, California, March 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- Delivers Feature Packed Open Source Eclipse-Based IDE for Ruby on Rails

Aptana Inc. today announced the long anticipated availability of RadRails 1.0 for Aptana Studio, the popular Eclipse-based IDE for Ajax and Web developers who use scripting languages like Ruby, PHP, and JavaScript. RadRails 1.0, the first major release of the RadRails software since Aptana became home to the community project last year, provides unparalleled features for Ruby on Rails developers. The free, open source download for RadRails 1.0 can be found at http://www.aptana.com.

HOD HASHARON, Israel, March 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- First baseband processor optimized for handheld devices, offering a combination of ultra-low power consumption, smallest footprint and low cost

Altair Semiconductor (Altair), a fabless chip company developing the world's most advanced mobile WiMAX semiconductors for handheld devices, today announced the release of the ALT2150 mobile WiMAX baseband processor to leading handheld device and module manufacturers. The ALT2150, the world's smallest and most power-efficient mobile WiMAX processor, implements full WiMAX Forum(TM) Wave-2 physical (PHY) Layer and Media Access Control (MAC) functionality, and offers substantial performance enhancements beyond this profile.

INDIANAPOLIS and LONDON, March 12 /PRNewswire/ --

Today Eli Lilly and Company announced its four-year grant of US$4,384,000 to the World Health Organization (WHO) for scaling up its global capacity to manage multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) programs.