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London's First Science-Based Cellulite Massage Guarantees Results For London's Cellulite Sufferers

London's First Science-Based Cellulite Massage Guarantees Results For London's Cellulite Sufferers

Mar 26 2009 | comment(s)

LONDON, March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Nutritionist, bodyworker and cellulite guru Georgios Tzenichristos has been researching the cellulite science for the last 10 years and now offers from his Knightsbridge practice a personalised, manual cellulite massage technique that promises gradual but guaranteed and long-lasting results (http://www.lipotherapeia.com/guaranteed).

Agent Logic Announces Multi-INT Analyst Solution To Bridge The Gap Between Cyber Threat Data And Traditional Intelligence Sources

Agent Logic Announces Multi-INT Analyst Solution To Bridge The Gap Between Cyber Threat Data And Traditional Intelligence Sources

Mar 26 2009 | comment(s)

VIENNA, Virginia, March 26 /PRNewswire/ --

- Using its flagship product RulePoint(R), Agent Logic provides non-technical cyber analysts with a real-time multi-INT operational view of cyber threats

Life’s Beginnings: Hypotheses And Plausibility

Life’s Beginnings: Hypotheses And Plausibility

Mar 26 2009 | comment(s)

    One of the earliest scientific speculations about the origin of life was Alexander Oparin’s proposal in 1924 that life began as jelly-like blobs he called coacervates. Oparin knew that the unit of life was the cell, but it had not yet been established that cells had membranous boundaries,  so coacervates were thought to be reasonable experimental models of the “protoplasm” that seemed to compose all cells.  Oparin also discussed conditions on the early Earth as part of the story, setting the stage for what would later become astrobiology.

Evolution Is Still Alive And Well

Evolution Is Still Alive And Well

Mar 26 2009 | comment(s)

30 Days of Evolution Blogging - The Finish Line

Show Me The Science Month Day 30 Installment 30


The Real Reason Gnomes Don't Wear Bras

The Real Reason Gnomes Don't Wear Bras

Mar 26 2009 | comment(s)

First published in Dutch in 1976, Gnomes by Wil Huygens and Rien Poortlivet remains the definitive tome on these reticent woodland denizens.  A classic of fiction science, this lavishly detailed field notebook of the physiology, habits, and habitat of gnomes as observed over 20 years of firsthand observation.  The physician-illustrator team wastes no time in addressing questions of physiological scale:
Biodiesel Fuel From Algae Can Be Economical, Say Researchers

Biodiesel Fuel From Algae Can Be Economical, Say Researchers

Mar 26 2009 | comment(s)

Chemists reported development of what they termed the first economical, eco-friendly process to convert algae oil into biodiesel fuel — a discovery they predict could one day lead to U.S. independence from petroleum as a fuel.

One of the problems with current methods for producing biodiesel from algae oil is the processing cost, and the New York researchers say their innovative process is at least 40 percent cheaper than that of others now being used. Supply will not be a problem: There is a limitless amount of algae growing in oceans, lakes, and rivers, throughout the world.

Another benefit from the "continuously flowing fixed-bed" method to create algae biodiesel, they add, is that there is no wastewater produced to cause pollution. 
Bioengineered Proteins May Help Prevent Tumor Spread

Bioengineered Proteins May Help Prevent Tumor Spread

Mar 26 2009 | comment(s)

Re-engineering a protein that helps prevent tumours spreading and growing has created a potentially powerful therapy for people with many different types of cancer. In a study published in the first issue of EMBO Molecular Medicine, Canadian researchers modified the tumour inhibiting protein, von Hippel-Lindau (VHL), and demonstrated that it could suppress tumour growth in mice.
Reassessing Circumcision - It Should Be Routine Medical Advice, Says Study

Reassessing Circumcision - It Should Be Routine Medical Advice, Says Study

Mar 26 2009 | comment(s)

New data from Ugandan scientists and investigators at Johns Hopkins University find that adult male circumcision decreased rates of the two most common sexually transmitted infections – herpes and the human papillomavirus (HPV), the virus that causes cervical cancer and genital warts – according to a report issued in the New England Journal of Medicine March 26, 2009.

In an accompanying editorial, "Prevention of Viral Sexually Transmitted Infections – Foreskin at the Forefront," two local University of Washington researchers say these new findings provide compelling new evidence on circumcision's effect on decreasing currently incurable viral sexually transmitted infections.
Asteroid Gets Viewed From Space To Impact

Asteroid Gets Viewed From Space To Impact

Mar 26 2009 | comment(s)

Reports by scientists of meteorites striking Earth in the past have resembled police reports of so many muggings — the offenders came out of nowhere and then disappeared into the crowd, making it difficult to get more than very basic facts.

Now an international research team has been able to identify an asteroid in space before it entered Earth's atmosphere, enabling computers to determine its area of origin in the solar system as well as predict the arrival time and location on Earth of its shattered surviving parts.

Morbidly Obese Sedentary For 99 Percent Of The Day

Morbidly Obese Sedentary For 99 Percent Of The Day

Mar 26 2009 | comment(s)

A new study appearing in Clinical Cardiology examines the average fitness level of the morbidly obese (body mass indexes between 40.0 and 49.9). The findings show that the tested population was sedentary for more than 99 percent of the day and, on average, walked less than 2,500 steps per day – far below healthy living guidelines of 10,000 steps per day. The results provide important links between obesity, poor fitness and cardiovascular disease.

The study used a precise body sensor to continually measure physical activity, caloric expenditure and movement minute-by-minute over a 72-hour period within their home environments. Following collection of the data, structured cardiorespiratory fitness testing was performed on each subject. 
Life Threatening Aneurism - Surgery Monday, Home Tuesday With A Band Aid

Life Threatening Aneurism - Surgery Monday, Home Tuesday With A Band Aid

Mar 26 2009 | comment(s)

Norma Wooley checked into Loyola University Hospital on a recent Monday morning for brain surgery to repair a life-threatening aneurism (also: aneurysm).  She went home on Tuesday, cured of the slurred speech, drooping face and worst headache of her life.

Wooley had a cerebral aneurism, a weak spot in a blood vessel that balloons out and fills with blood. About six million Americans -- 1 in 50 people -- have brain aneurisms that could rupture. Each year, aneurisms burst in about 25,000 people, and most die or suffer permanent disabilities, according to the Brain Aneurysm Foundation.
Nanogenerator Uses Body Movement To Charge IPhones And IPods

Nanogenerator Uses Body Movement To Charge IPhones And IPods

Mar 26 2009 | comment(s)

You may soon be able to say goodbye to batteries for your Blackberry or cell phone.  Instead, they will get power from just a wave of your hand.

In research presented at the ACS meeting in Salt Lake City, scientists describe technology that converts mechanical energy from body movements or even the flow of blood in the body into electric energy that can be used to power a broad range of electronic devices without using batteries.
An Essay Concerning Wings

An Essay Concerning Wings

Mar 25 2009 | comment(s)

Note:
The ideas developed here were prompted by my reading a recent blog.
Thank you Becky Jungbauer.


What you are reading is a mix of whimsy, ethics and philosophy applied to a problem in politics.  It does not offer a solution to any specific problem. It may direct the attention away from what is unimportant in current debates about evolution.
One can only live in hope.


An Essay Concerning Wings
Iron Curtain – Ribbon Of Life

Iron Curtain – Ribbon Of Life

Mar 25 2009 | comment(s)

"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."


Thus spoke Sir Winston Churchill, in the company of President Harry S. Truman, on March 5, 1946, at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri.

But this Iron Curtain was not a single boundary, but two fences (mostly) separated by a furlong or so (5 furlongs = 1 kilometre) with a no-man’s-land in between.

Thomson Reuters Partners With Egyptian Universities Libraries To Provide Research Solutions

Thomson Reuters Partners With Egyptian Universities Libraries To Provide Research Solutions

Mar 25 2009 | comment(s)

PHILADELPHIA and LONDON, March 25 /PRNewswire/ --

The Healthcare and Science business of Thomson Reuters today announced that Egyptian Universities Libraries (EUL) has selected Thomson Reuters to provide research solutions to their consortium of university libraries. EUL signed a multi-year contract with Thomson Reuters to provide Egypt's researcher's access to ISI Web of Knowledge(SM).

Stallergenes : Investor Meeting: Webcast Is Available

Stallergenes : Investor Meeting: Webcast Is Available

Mar 25 2009 | comment(s)

PARIS, March 25 /PRNewswire/ --

Hello,

The investor meeting relating to the 2008 earnings and 2009 outlook has been webcasted. The presentation is available in English from the following link:

http://www.thomson-webcast.net/uk/dispatching/?event_id=2ef87b3007af7a71...

ABOUT STALLERGENES

Innovation Nations: Thomson Reuters Analysis Of 2008 World Patent Activity Finds U.S. Market Infused With Asian Innovations

Innovation Nations: Thomson Reuters Analysis Of 2008 World Patent Activity Finds U.S. Market Infused With Asian Innovations

Mar 25 2009 | comment(s)

PHILADELPHIA, March 25 /PRNewswire/ --

- Global Intellectual Property Analysis Finds Foreign Companies Dominate List of Top Ten U.S. Innovators While Chinese, European, Japanese and Korean Rankings Showcase Homegrown Technologies

The IP Solutions business of Thomson Reuters released the results of its 2008 Global Innovation Study today, analyzing the leading innovators by key region over the last year. The study, which tracked the top ten innovators in China, Europe, Japan, Korea and the U.S. on the basis of total number of unique inventions issued in granted patents and published patent applications, found that 70 percent of top ten innovators in the U.S. were non-U.S. companies. In contrast, home region innovators dominate the Asian and European top ten lists.

Publication Of Shire Plc's Annual Report 2008

Publication Of Shire Plc's Annual Report 2008

Mar 25 2009 | comment(s)

DUBLIN, March 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPGY), the global specialty biopharmaceutical company, announces that its Annual Report and Accounts in respect of the year ended December 31, 2008 has been published on its website. Shire has previously announced unaudited full year 2008 results, prepared in accordance with US generally accepted accounting principles, in its full year earnings announcement on February 19, 2009.

Copies of the Annual Report and Accounts, Notice of Annual General Meeting and Proxy Card will be submitted to the UK Listing Authority on or about March 27, 2009 and will shortly thereafter be available for inspection at the UK Listing Authority's Document Viewing Facility, which is situated at:

IPC Launches Alliance Express For Small And Mid-Sized Trading Firms

IPC Launches Alliance Express For Small And Mid-Sized Trading Firms

Mar 25 2009 | comment(s)

JERSEY CITY, New Jersey, March 25 /PRNewswire/ --

- Innovative Trading Communications System Brings Secure Global Network, Trading Platform to Smaller Trading Floors

IPC Systems, Inc., a leading provider of indispensable trading communications solutions to the world's leading financial services firms and global enterprises, today launched Alliance Express(TM), an innovative, cost-effective solution that delivers a new, streamlined trading floor communications system for small and mid-sized firms.

Health Robotics Announces The Early Release Of The I.v.STATION(TM) Profile Option And DUPHAT Presentation

Health Robotics Announces The Early Release Of The I.v.STATION(TM) Profile Option And DUPHAT Presentation

Mar 25 2009 | comment(s)

BOZEN, Italy, March 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Robotics today announced the early release in the second half of 2009 of its i.v.STATION Profile option with a presentation [P13] at the Dubai International Pharmaceuticals and Technologies Conference and Exhibition (DUPHAT) http://www.duphat.ae/parallelSession.php on March 31, 2009 by Gaspar DeViedma, along with related booth exhibitions.