Psychotherapies such as cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) are under-regulated in the UK and should be subject to the same standards of evidence as drugs, assert two experts in psychological medicine writing in the Journal of Psychopharmacology.

NEW YORK, January 14 /PRNewswire/ --

In a recent TV segment broadcast to more than 31 million homes in the US via News Corp's Fox Business network, market leaders MySpace, Google and FunkySexyCool were interviewed, including Aussie CEO Tim O'Connor from FunkySexyCool.

Social networking has been largely dominated by two players, Facebook and MySpace, but now FunkySexyCool, a company established in Australia, is earning international media interest for its innovative approach to the social networking phenomenon.

"FunkySexyCool is a fun, fast and easy way to socialise via a mobile phone or the web. It's a cool and exciting way in which anyone, anywhere in the world, can meet someone with the same interests in seconds," says O'Connor.

WINDSOR, England, January 14 /PRNewswire/ --

- DataFlux(R) dfPower(R) Studio Will Analyse, Improve and Control Data Within the Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity Donations Database That Contains Over 3.5 Million Records

LONDON, January 14 /PRNewswire/ --

Perenco has completed the acquisition of Barrett Resources (Peru) LLC, a company holding oil and gas licences in Peru. The principal asset of Barrett, which will in future be known as Perenco Peru Limited, is its 100% interest in the licence contract for Block 67 in the Maranon Basin. Block 67 contains the Paiche, Dorado and Pirana Fields which together hold estimated 2P resources of over 300 million barrels. When the development is completed it is estimated that these fields will have potential to produce up to 100,000 barrels of oil per day.

Normal yeast organisms live about a week but using a combination of dietary and genetic changes, biologists have created baker’s yeast capable of living to 800 (in yeast years) without apparent side effects.

Study leader Valter Longo of the University of Southern California and his group put baker’s yeast on a calorie-restricted diet and knocked out two genes, RAS2 and SCH9, that promote aging in yeast and cancer in humans.

“We got a 10-fold life span extension that is, I think, the longest one that has ever been achieved in any organism,” Longo said.

“I would say 10-fold is pretty significant,” said Anna McCormick, chief of the genetics and cell biology branch at the National Institute on Aging and Longo’s program officer.

SANTA FE, New Mexico, January 14 /PRNewswire/ --

- Facility Will Initially Produce PV Modules and Receivers for Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Plants

- Opening in 2009, Facility Will Initially Bring 350 Cleantech Jobs To Region

- Plans Call for Investment to Grow to US$500 Million and Workforce to Expand to 1,500

SCHOTT AG of Mainz and Governor Bill Richardson's (D - NM) office today announced that the company will construct a new solar energy technology production facility in the Mesa del Sol region of Albuquerque, NM, USA.

CALGARY, Canada, January 14 /PRNewswire/ --

- Resverlogix Sees Early Success and Expedites Phase 2 Plans

New research from Vanderbilt University states that the brain processes aggression as a reward, similar to the way it processes sex and food, and this may help explain a propensity to fight and struggle or perhaps the enjoyment of violent sports like boxing.

“Aggression occurs among virtually all vertebrates and is necessary to get and keep important resources such as mates, territory and food,” Craig Kennedy, professor of special education and pediatrics, said.

Researchers have found a way to selectively block the ability of white blood cells to “crawl” toward the sites of injury and infection when such mobility drives disease, according to a study published today in The Journal of Experimental Medicine. The results suggest a new treatment approach for autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and multiple sclerosis, and for conditions made worse by misplaced inflammation, like atherosclerosis, stroke and transplant rejection, researchers said.

Where a single-celled amoeba moves to find food, human cells migrate as part of complex bodily functions like immunity. Disease-fighting cells for instance move toward bacteria and cells infected with viruses, which they target for destruction.

BURLINGTON, Massachusetts, January 14 /PRNewswire/ --

SunGard (http://www.sungard.com) today announced that Financial-i magazine has named SunGard's Phase3 (http://www.sungard.com/phase3) the most innovative brokerage securities processing system in the magazine's "Leaders in Innovation Awards" for the second consecutive year.