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Microsoft And Travelport Team To Help Airlines, Travel Industry Suppliers, And Travel Agencies Enrich And Personalize The Traveller Experience

Microsoft And Travelport Team To Help Airlines, Travel Industry Suppliers, And Travel Agencies Enrich And Personalize The Traveller Experience

Oct 22 2008 | comment(s)

REDMOND, Washington and LANGLEY, England, October 22 /PRNewswire/ --

Microsoft Corp. and Travelport today announced they are teaming together to develop an integrated set of services targeted for the travel industry to address challenges faced by travellers, suppliers, and travel agents. Through the collaboration, Microsoft and Travelport will explore the development of services designed to improve the traveller experience and to provide airlines, travel suppliers, and travel agencies, including travel management companies (TMCs) and online travel agents (OTAs), with new revenue and cost reduction opportunities, broader distribution reach, and improved customer satisfaction and loyalty. The services are slated for Q1 2009.

Beat The Credit Crunch With Online Bargains

Beat The Credit Crunch With Online Bargains

Oct 22 2008 | comment(s)

LONDON, October 22 /PRNewswire/ -- A new and exciting site for online shopping has just opened its doors for business in the UK. Funkbet.com allows customers to find fantastic opportunities to buy the latest and greatest products 80-90% below the normal retail price.

The shoppers can achieve this by competing against other shoppers to find the lowest unique bid for the product on offer. This is exactly the opposite of the more famous auctions sites, like eBay.com where the products go to the highest bidder.

Persistent Vaccination Effect Of GRAZAX(R) After Completion Of Treatment

Persistent Vaccination Effect Of GRAZAX(R) After Completion Of Treatment

Oct 22 2008 | comment(s)

COPENHAGEN, October 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Breakthrough: Results from the fourth year in a long-term clinical study prove the disease modifying effect of GRAZAX(R). For the first time ever, it is documented that the positive clinical effect of the tablet vaccine persists after completion of treatment.

Today, ALK announces main results from the first follow-up year in a long-term study (GT-08) with GRAZAX(R), the company's tablet-based vaccine against grass pollen allergy. The clinical study documents that the effect of GRAZAX(R) persists following completion of the recommended three-year treatment regimen. Furthermore, blood samples from patients show a persistent, positive effect on the immune system indicating a lasting tolerance to grass pollen.

Boehringer Ingelheim Broadens Oncology Pipeline With Promising New Data For Potentially First In Class Plk1 Inhibitor

Boehringer Ingelheim Broadens Oncology Pipeline With Promising New Data For Potentially First In Class Plk1 Inhibitor

Oct 22 2008 | comment(s)

INGELHEIM, Germany, October 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- BI 6727, a Highly Potent and Selective Plk1 inhibitor, Represents Latest Advance in Company's Plk1 Programme

- For non-US Healthcare Media

Speech And Language Therapy Services 'Heading Towards Crisis'

Speech And Language Therapy Services 'Heading Towards Crisis'

Oct 22 2008 | comment(s)

LONDON, October 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- Unite Survey Reveals Longer Waiting Times and Stressed Workforce

The speech and language therapy service is 'heading towards crisis', a new survey of the profession by Unite, the largest union in the country, has revealed.

Unite, which represents 5,500 speech and language therapists (SALTS) and SALT assistants, said that this means longer waiting and referral times for patients and clients, while the workforce becomes more stressed and demoralised.

Unite's Lead Officer for SALT members, Fiona Farmer said: 'The survey of our reps paints a service heading towards crisis, with our members having to introduce priority lists and preside over a decline in specialist services.'

Enigma Diagnostics Announces Patent Licence With Applied Biosystems

Enigma Diagnostics Announces Patent Licence With Applied Biosystems

Oct 22 2008 | comment(s)

PORTON DOWN, England, October 22 /PRNewswire/ --

Enigma Diagnostics Limited, the decentralised and point-of-care molecular diagnostics company, announced today that it has signed a third licence agreement with Applied Biosystems.

The licence provides Enigma with access to claims of US Patent No. 5,928,907 that describe methods for monitoring nucleic acid amplification in real-time. This is the first such licence Applied Biosystems has granted to the method claims of the '907 patent.

This complements Enigma's existing licence under certain patents owned by Applied Biosystems for real-time PCR thermal cyclers.

Financial terms were not disclosed.

Genentech/Roche/Chugai's Avastin Will Garner More Than 20 Percent Of The Total Breast Cancer Drug Market In 2017

Genentech/Roche/Chugai's Avastin Will Garner More Than 20 Percent Of The Total Breast Cancer Drug Market In 2017

Oct 22 2008 | comment(s)

WALTHAM, Massachusetts, October 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- Significant Unmet Need Remains for Agents that are Effective in Treating Triple-Negative Breast Cancer, According to a New Report from Decision Resources

Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that significant market penetration will drive Genentech/Roche/Chugai's Avastin to garner just over 20 percent of total sales in the breast cancer drug market in the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and Japan in 2017.

Quadrem To Provide ETendering Technology And Services For SKEC's USD $2 Billion Gas Train Project

Quadrem To Provide ETendering Technology And Services For SKEC's USD $2 Billion Gas Train Project

Oct 22 2008 | comment(s)

PARIS, October 22 /PRNewswire/ --

South Korean-based SK Engineering and Construction (SKEC) is using Quadrem solutions to manage sourcing and procurement communications with an international community of 5,000 suppliers. Approximately 300 to 400 tenders are expected to be issued by SKEC to support a gas train project it's undertaking in the Middle East for a national petroleum company.

We chose Quadrem to handle Web-based sourcing and procurement for this USD $2 billion project because we must provide excellent management of worldwide suppliers, said Mr. Oh-Young LEE, Project Procurement Chief Manager of the Fourth Gas Train Project Team, SKEC.

OrbitalPay, LLC Implements Zecure's Acquirer SAFE Solution To Stop Fraudulent E-Commerce Merchants

OrbitalPay, LLC Implements Zecure's Acquirer SAFE Solution To Stop Fraudulent E-Commerce Merchants

Oct 22 2008 | comment(s)

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, October 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Zecure, a leading provider of e-commerce fraud prevention solutions, today announced that OrbitalPay, LLC has installed its award-winning Acquirer SAFE suite to prevent fraudulent merchants from hiding illegal transactions and to keep high risk merchants under control.

Acquirer SAFE helps Acquiring Banks and Payment Service Providers (PSPs) keep high-risk merchants under control and prevent them from processing illegal transactions disguised as legitimate ones. Acquirer SAFE enables acquirers and PSPs to identify a transaction's true origin based on the behavior of shoppers on the merchant's website.

Huge Demand For .tel From Registrars As 100 Sign Up With Telnic

Huge Demand For .tel From Registrars As 100 Sign Up With Telnic

Oct 22 2008 | comment(s)

LONDON, October 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Today at SYSTEMS 08, Telnic Limited, the Registry Operator for the new .tel Top Level Domain (TLD) announced that one hundred ICANN-accredited registrars had signed an agreement to sell .tel domain names well in advance of its launch.

The one hundredth registrar to sign was Network Solutions, which ranks third largest in the world with the number of domains under management. The first registrar to sign up to distribute .tel was European domain specialist EuroDNS.

Global Warming Mystery - 55 Million Years Ago It Created A New Form Of Life

Global Warming Mystery - 55 Million Years Ago It Created A New Form Of Life

Oct 22 2008 | comment(s)

Researchers from McGill University, the California Institute of Technology, the Curie Institute in Paris, Princeton University and other institutions, have unearthed crystalline magnetic fossils of a previously unknown species of microorganism that lived at the boundary of the Paleocene and Eocene epochs, some 55 million years ago. The research might help scientists understand more thoroughly the potential effects of significant changes in the Earth's climate. Though they are only some four microns long, these newly discovered, spear-shaped magnetite crystals (magnetofossils) – unearthed at a dig in New Jersey – are up to eight times larger than previously known magnetofossils.
Alemtuzumab Study Brings New Hope For Multiple Sclerosis Sufferers

Alemtuzumab Study Brings New Hope For Multiple Sclerosis Sufferers

Oct 22 2008 | comment(s)

A drug which was developed in Cambridge and initially designed to treat a form of leukaemia has also proven effective against combating the debilitating neurological disease multiple sclerosis (MS).

The study, led by researchers from the University of Cambridge, has found that alemtuzumab not only stops MS from advancing in patients with early stage active relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) but may also restore lost function caused by the disease. The findings were published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Chandrayaan-1: India Goes To The Moon

Chandrayaan-1: India Goes To The Moon

Oct 22 2008 | comment(s)

Chandrayaan-1, India’s first mission to the Moon, was successfully launched earlier this morning from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SHAR) in Sriharikota, India.

The PSLV-C11 rocket, an upgraded version of the Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO’s) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, lifted off at 02:52 Central European Summer Time (CEST) and injected the spacecraft into a highly elongated orbit around the Earth. 

Chandrayaan-1 is led by ISRO and the international partners include ESA, Bulgaria and the USA.

Registrar Gandi Turns Attention To The UK

Registrar Gandi Turns Attention To The UK

Oct 22 2008 | comment(s)

LONDON, October 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Gandi.net, the largest ICANN-accredited registrar in France, announces its expansion into the UK domain name and virtualised hosting market.

Greenhouse Gas Auctions Generate Revenue But Will It Help The Environment?

Greenhouse Gas Auctions Generate Revenue But Will It Help The Environment?

Oct 22 2008 | comment(s)

The following makes perfect sense - to the government. Let companies that generate no carbon emissions now be treated like they do. Sell those 'emission rights' to companies that are heavier polluters in an auction format, highest bidder wins. Force companies to participate and bid each other up by imposing penalties if they exceed their allowed emissions. Net effect on actual pollution - none. Net effect to the government? Billions. Including a new work force to oversee it all. Then they can use the money in 'awareness' programs to promote energy efficiency. Seriously, are any of you not aware there is pollution by now? Will more television ads help? The only thing more ridiculous would be subsidizing appliances that claim to be lower energy.
26 Genes Linked To Lung Cancer Identified

26 Genes Linked To Lung Cancer Identified

Oct 22 2008 | comment(s)

Researchers say they have assembled the most complete catalog to date of the genetic changes underlying the most common form of lung cancer. They identified 26 genes that are frequently mutated in a type of cancer called lung adenocarcinoma, a finding that more than doubles the number of genes already known to be linked to the deadly disease.

More than 1 million people worldwide die of lung cancer each year, including more than 160,000 in the United States. About 40 percent of them are adenocarcinoma, a type of non-small cell lung cancer and one that is exceedingly difficult to treat. Only about 15 percent of patients are still alive five years after diagnosis.

Cortisol For Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?

Cortisol For Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?

Oct 22 2008 | comment(s)

Cortisol helps our bodies cope with stress, but what about its effects on the brain? A new study appearing in the October 15th issue of Biological Psychiatry, says that in an animal model of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), high doses of a cortisol-related substance, corticosterone, prevented negative consequences of stress exposure, including increased startle response and behavioral freezing when exposed to reminders of the stress.

However, low-dose corticosterone potentiated these responses. This finding suggests that corticosterone levels may influence both vulnerability and resilience in a dose-dependent manner through its involvement in memory processes.
Quadrem To Provide ETendering Technology And Services For SKEC's USD $2 Billion Gas Train Project

Quadrem To Provide ETendering Technology And Services For SKEC's USD $2 Billion Gas Train Project

Oct 22 2008 | comment(s)

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, October 22 /PRNewswire/ --

South Korean-based SK Engineering and Construction (SKEC) is using Quadrem solutions to manage sourcing and procurement communications with an international community of 5,000 suppliers. Approximately 300 to 400 tenders are expected to be issued by SKEC to support a gas train project it's undertaking in the Middle East for a national petroleum company.

We chose Quadrem to handle Web-based sourcing and procurement for this USD $2 billion project because we must provide excellent management of worldwide suppliers, said Mr. Oh-Young LEE, Project Procurement Chief Manager of the Fourth Gas Train Project Team, SKEC.

Synaesthesia, Cognitive 'Cross Talk' And Using Hypnosis To Induce It

Synaesthesia, Cognitive 'Cross Talk' And Using Hypnosis To Induce It

Oct 22 2008 | comment(s)

People living with synaesthesia (known as synaesthetes) experience abnormal interactions between the senses. Digit-color synaesthetes, for instance, will experience certain numbers in specific colors (for example, they might experience the number seven as red). A possible reason put forward for this phenomenon is the existence of extra connections between brain areas in synaesthetes, but the new study, published in the journal Psychological Science, suggests otherwise.
The Grass Is Sometimes Greener On The Other Side Of The Biofuels Fence

The Grass Is Sometimes Greener On The Other Side Of The Biofuels Fence

Oct 22 2008 | comment(s)

The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences' (CALS) Bioenergy Feedstock Project, now in its second year, is the only project of its kind devoted to exploring the many species of field grass that grow in the Northeast and their potential as sources for biofuels.

The project has roughly 80 acres of different warm- and cool-season perennial grass varieties, otherwise known as "feedstocks," growing in 11 counties across New York. "Our ultimate goal is to maximize the economic benefit of bioenergy production as an alternative energy source," said Donald Viands, professor of plant breeding and genetics, who heads the project, speaking against a colorful backdrop of a field of blue, green, lavender and beige hues, where some plants were withering, but some were some thriving.