HAINAN, China, February 27 /PRNewswire/ --

Addintools announced today the launch of Classic Menu for Office 2007 v3.91, an interface add-on for Microsoft Office 2007 that brings back the classic style of the Microsoft Office 2003 interface with all the new features of Microsoft Office 2007, as well as the ability to automatically deploy to the client's computers in enterprises or organizations.

MELBOURNE, Australia, February 27 /PRNewswire/ --

The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI) announced today that Abbott, a global, broad-based, healthcare company, Genentech, a leading biotechnology company based in South San Francisco and WEHI have joined in a tripartite research collaboration to discover new anti-cancer drugs.

"This exciting three party research collaboration among world leaders in this field may increase the chance of translating basic scientific research in apoptosis, the process of programmed cell death, as carried out by our collaborators over recent years, into novel targeted cancer therapeutics," says Dr. Julian Clark, Head of Business Development at WEHI.

LONDON, February 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Folic Acid Action (FAA)(1) is challenging concerns raised by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) about the risk of excessive intake of folic acid, amid fears that it may stop women planning a pregnancy from supplementing their diet with this essential nutrient for the unborn child.

FAA is also highlighting how important it is that with or without fortification, women who are trying to conceive must take additional folic acid and says that current advice on this lacks clarity.

ZURICH, Switzerland, February 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Solianis sees its Multi-Sensor Technology as a promising approach to continuous non-invasive glucose monitoring. Professor Marc Donath, member of the Solianis Scientific Advisory Board and Professor for endocrinology and diabetology at the University Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland, has supervised multiple trials during the last years at the hospital. These trials have shown that Solianis' multi-sensor technology operates under various conditions to track glucose changes in the human body. Today, in their daily lives, patients are wearing a first configuration of the device to test its applicability.

FAREHAM, England, February 27 /PRNewswire/ --

- Acquisition Allows Users to Expand Their Base of Friends and Use New Mobile Features

3BILL has today announced that it has acquired a UK Social Networking Platform aimed at 15-24 years olds. The company has not disclosed terms of the purchase for the site http://www.profileheaven.com - winner of 2006 UK Website of the Year - Best Community Site.

Do bats have animal magnetism? Yes, say researchers from the Universities of Leeds and Princeton who say they have discovered that bats use a magnetic substance in their body called magnetite as an ‘internal compass’ to help them navigate.

Dr Richard Holland from Leeds' Faculty of Biological Sciences and Professor Martin Wikelski from Princeton University studied the directions in which different groups of Big Brown bats flew after they had been given different magnetic pulses and released 20km north of their home roost.

Scientists funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) have found that, when jazz musicians are engaged in the highly creative and spontaneous activity known as improvisation, a large region of the brain involved in monitoring one’s performance is shut down, while a small region involved in organizing self-initiated thoughts and behaviors is highly activated.

The researchers propose that this and several related patterns are likely to be key indicators of a brain that is engaged in highly creative thought.

During the study, six highly trained jazz musicians played the keyboard under two scenarios while in the functional MRI scanner.

Turning just one Sumatran province's forests and peat swamps into pulpwood and palm oil plantations is generating more annual greenhouse gas emissions than the Netherlands and rapidly driving the province's elephants into extinction, a new study by WWF and partners has found.

The study found that in central Sumatra's Riau Province nearly 10.5 million acres of tropical forests and peat swamp have been cleared in the last 25 years. Forest loss and degradation and peat decomposition and fires are behind average annual carbon emissions equivalent to 122 percent of the Netherlands total annual emissions, 58 percent of Australia's annual emissions, 39 percent of annual UK emissions and 26 percent of annual German emissions.

Considerable attention has been paid to the effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals in aquatic environments, but rather less attention has been given to routes of contamination on land. A new study by researchers at Cardiff University, reveals that wild birds foraging on invertebrates contaminated with environmental pollutants, show marked changes in both brain and behavior: male birds exposed to this pollution develop more complex songs, which are actually preferred by the females, even though these same males usually show reduced immune function compared to controls.

Katherine Buchanan and her colleagues studied male European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) foraging at a sewage treatment works in the south-west UK and analysed the earthworms that constitute their prey. The researchers found that those birds exposed to environmentally-relevant levels of synthetic and natural estrogen mimics developed longer and more complex songs compared to males in a control group.

PERTH, Australia, February 27 /PRNewswire/ --

Nido Petroleum Ltd (Nido) is pleased to announce that the Galoc 3 horizontal production well flowed oil to the surface unassisted at a maximum rate of 5,397 barrels per day during clean up flow testing on 20 and 21 February 2008.

The purpose of the Galoc 3 clean up and oil flow to surface was to confirm the integrity of the well and installed completion equipment as well as to ascertain the well's ability to flow.

Pressure, temperature and flow rate data were recorded on surface and on subsurface gauges located down-hole, close to the reservoir. Oil samples were also collected and will be sent to a specialist laboratory for assay and PVT analysis.