DENVER, April 16 /PRNewswire/ --

Altira Group LLC -- the pioneer and leader in venture capital and private equity funding for energy technology companies -- announced today an investment in Hyperion Power Generation, Inc. (HPG), of Santa Fe, New Mexico. HPG is developing a new type of small, self-contained, transportable nuclear power reactor to produce heat, steam and electricity for a variety of commercial applications that require reliable power independent of the common grid.

Altira's investment in HPG was made out of the recently closed Altira Technology Fund V -- a US$176 Million fund focused on venture capital for energy technologies.

CALGARY, Canada, April 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Oncolytics Biotech Inc. ("Oncolytics") (TSX:ONC, NASDAQ:ONCY) announced today that Prof. Alan Melcher and his research group at St. James's University Hospital in Leeds, U.K. published the results of their work in the April 10 online issue of Gene Therapy. The paper is entitled "Inflammatory Tumour Cell Killing by Oncolytic Reovirus for the Treatment of Melanoma."

The investigators showed that reovirus effectively kills and replicates in both human melanoma cell lines and freshly resected tumour. They demonstrated that reovirus melanoma killing is more potent than, and distinct from, chemotherapy or radiotherapy-induced cell death. They concluded that reovirus is suitable for clinical testing in melanoma.

GENEVA, April 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Merck Serono and its US affiliate EMD Serono, Inc., both part of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, announced today a planned expansion of EMD Serono's US presence with an anticipated investment of $50 million at its Billerica facility northwest of Boston, Massachusetts. The company anticipates that this investment will create more than 100 new jobs in Massachusetts.

The investment will support the construction of a center of excellence in discovery, creating critical mass in research with a common goal of finding new treatments for unmet medical needs.

WASHINGTON, April 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Industry supports hundreds of programs helping millions in the developing world and is looking for new partners

The worldwide pharmaceutical industry today launched Global Health Progress, an initiative to bring research-based biopharmaceutical companies, global health leaders and policymakers together to build on current partnerships to improve health in the developing world.

Serving as a convening point for the industry and its partners, Global Health Progress will facilitate interaction between the private sector, NGOs and governments to share research and best practices; raise awareness of global health challenges; and build partnerships to improve global health.

The risk of illegal information access, notably in money transactions, requires more and more advanced cryptographic techniques against criminals and the occasional mischevious teenager.

Quantum cryptography has been regarded as 100-percent protection against attacks on sensitive data traffic but a research team at Linköping University in Sweden has found a hole in even this advanced technology.

When an encrypted message needs to be sent over a computer network, the most difficult problem is how the key should be transmitted. One way is to literally send it by courier (which has its own security risks) or, if it's in your budget, attached to the wrist of James Bond.

'S-HERTOGENBOSCH, The Netherlands, April 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Quintiq, a leading provider of Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) solutions, today announced that Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL), one of the world's largest independent providers of factory to dealer logistics services for automakers and high & heavy rolling equipment manufacturers, has selected Quintiq to provide a planning solution to cover its global planning activities. The Quintiq solution will bring more transparency to WWL's supply chain, enable WWL to optimize vessel space according to available and forecasted cargo, cargo priority and revenue projections, and improve performance against contract commitments.

LONDON, April 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Zoomix Accelerator is the Only Solution Available for the Automated Classification, Standardization and Matching of Millions of Complex Customer and Financial Instrument Data Records, Without the Need for any Manual Rule or Script Development

Zoomix, a leading provider of advanced enterprise master data management solutions, today announced that Brewin Dolphin Ltd., the UK investment firm managing portfolios worth GBP21.6 billion for over 120,000 clients, selected Zoomix's self-learning data management software, Zoomix Accelerator. Brewin Dolphin is implementing Zoomix Accelerator to automate the matching, standardization and classification of hundreds of thousands of customer and financial data records.

CAPELLE AAN DEN IJSSEL, The Netherlands, April 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Dexton, a Dutch software company with more than 20 years of experience in complex integration processes, today announces that their Agile System Environment (ASE) is available on Websphere, Apache and TomCat.

By using Java (EE) and J2EE (JES) technology, next to the .Net Framework technology that was already used, ASE has become a truly platform independent solution. ASE has always been cross browser compatible and all separate parts of the application are available for Unix, IBM iSeries, Microsoft Server and Linux.

MOSCOW, April 16 /PRNewswire/ -- ElcomSoft, a leader in password recovery, has added multiprocessor and multicore support to Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery v. 2.50.

ElcomSoft's Windows password recovery software offers administrators a comprehensive solution for recovering passwords to documents and files when employees forget their passwords, or when they deliberately add passwords to documents in an effort to sabotage their companies. The software is also used by forensics, police, and military specialists worldwide to open locked documents.