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Resverlogix's Lead Drug Featured In Key Scientific Publication

Resverlogix's Lead Drug Featured In Key Scientific Publication

Jul 18 2008 | comment(s)

CALGARY, Canada, July 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- RVX-208 is the Only Apo-Al/HDL Drug to be Highlighted

Resverlogix Corp. ("Resverlogix" or the "Company") (TSX:RVX) is pleased to announce that Resverlogix's lead drug is featured prominently in an article titled "Emerging Antidyslipidemic Drugs", which appears in the current edition of Expert Opinion of Emerging Drugs, a well respected scientific journal for the pharmaceutical industry. The article written by Drs.' Pollex, Joy and Hegele provides an overview of current and upcoming dyslipidemic drugs.

Honeywell Reports Second Quarter Sales Up 13% To US$9.7 Billion And Earnings Up 23% To US$0.96 Per Share

Honeywell Reports Second Quarter Sales Up 13% To US$9.7 Billion And Earnings Up 23% To US$0.96 Per Share

Jul 18 2008 | comment(s)

MORRIS TOWNSHIP, New Jersey, July 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- Company Raises 2008 EPS Guidance to US$3.75 - 3.85

Lyme—The New Saturn

Lyme—The New Saturn

Jul 18 2008 | comment(s)

Living on a desert island may not even be a mode of escape from Lyme disease because birds can also be a carrier of infected ticks. Dorothy Leland, who is an advocate with the California Lyme Disease Association and has a daughter with the disease used to love the outdoors a lot more. Since her daughter contracted Lyme over three years ago Leland has taken a different perspective on life in the great outdoors.

Ticks that carry the Lyme disease infection, which causes a rash that looks similar to Saturn rings, is a very complex disease to spot, prevent, and cure. Lyme disease associations like lymedisease.org that Leland is a part of aid in the education and prevention of Lyme. Leland says there are three main things one should remember when setting out for an expedition in nature: Be aware, choose spots carefully, and wear repellant.

WatchGuard Confirmed As Industry Growth Leader

WatchGuard Confirmed As Industry Growth Leader

Jul 18 2008 | comment(s)

SEATTLE, July 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- WatchGuard Worldwide UTM Shipment Growth Leads Entire Industry with Record Setting Pace of 190 Percent for 2007; Leads with 196 Percent UTM Shipment Growth for Western Europe

WatchGuard(R) Technologies, a global leader in extensible network security and connectivity solutions, today announced that it has been confirmed as the worldwide leader of unified threat management (UTM) shipment growth for 2007, leading the industry with a whopping 190.2 percent rate of growth. Additionally, the company was crowned as the leading UTM shipment growth leader for Western Europe, where WatchGuard led the region with 196.4 percent growth.

Seahorse Bioscience Receives Poster Award From The European Association For The Study Of Obesity

Seahorse Bioscience Receives Poster Award From The European Association For The Study Of Obesity

Jul 18 2008 | comment(s)

N. BILLERICA, Massachusetts, July 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- Mechanism of Action of Metformin on Insulin Sensitization Poster Wins One of Three Prizes

Seahorse Bioscience, Inc., leaders in real-time measurement of cellular bioenergetics announced today the receipt of The European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO) poster award at the 16th European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2008) May 14-17, 2008 in Geneva, Switzerland.

SEKAB Agreement: More Verified Ethanol To Europe

SEKAB Agreement: More Verified Ethanol To Europe

Jul 18 2008 | comment(s)

STOCKHOLM, July 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Swedish environmental technology company SEKAB has signed an agreement for the supply of bio-ethanol verified for its sustainability with LDC Bioenergia, a Brazilian ethanol and sugar industry leader and part of the French group Louis Dreyfus.

"The agreement safeguards supplies of additional volumes of ethanol verified in its entire production chain for environmental and social sustainability," says Anders Fredriksson, Executive Vice President, SEKAB Biofuels & Chemicals.

"As one of the largest buyers of Brazilian ethanol, we have an important role to play in developing best practice and showing the way to the industry," says Fredriksson.

Sunrise Telecom(R) Adds VDSL2 Testing To Its Market-Leading Home Test Toolkit(TM), Accelerating Worldwide Installation Of FTTN S

Sunrise Telecom(R) Adds VDSL2 Testing To Its Market-Leading Home Test Toolkit(TM), Accelerating Worldwide Installation Of FTTN S

Jul 18 2008 | comment(s)

SAN JOSE, California, July 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- The Home Test Toolkit includes virtually every test required for accurate triple play deployment, reducing CAPEX and ensuring a quality installation with a single truck roll.

Sunrise Telecom(R) Incorporated (Pink Sheets: SRTI), a leader in test and measurement solutions for telecom, wireless and cable networks, today announced the addition of VDSL2 test capabilities to its industry-leading Home Test Toolkit (HTT)(TM). Previously available only in North America, this ground-breaking test system is now available worldwide, giving more customers the opportunity to benefit from its powerful test capabilities as they vie for leadership during the transition to VDSL2.

GravityZoo Announces MediaZoo, The 1st True Cloud Based Music Library & Player

GravityZoo Announces MediaZoo, The 1st True Cloud Based Music Library & Player

Jul 18 2008 | comment(s)

MAASTRICHT, The Netherlands, July 18 /PRNewswire/ -- GravityZoo announced today the beginning of the private beta program for MediaZoo, the 1st true Cloud-based music library & player, without the need for a browser.

Marc Vrijhof, GravityZoo co-founder and CEO says, "We're excited to announce the arrival of the MediaZoo private beta. The team has put in a ton of hard work to get us here. Now it's your turn to experience playing your music in the Cloud in a new and unique way."

Queen Of Punt Syndrome

Queen Of Punt Syndrome

Jul 18 2008 | comment(s)

At Cairo museum, on Queen Hatshepsut’s tomb in Deir el Bahari,it shows the chief Parihou with his wife Ati, Queen of Punt, (an area not still geographically established: Yemen, Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan?) while they offer gifts to the Egyptian Queen Hatshepsut (1516-1481 BC).

A naval expedition to the mysterious land of Punt was undertaken in the summer of Hatshepsut’s eighth year as queen; she sent a fleet of five ships, headed by her Chancellor Senenmet. The Queen of Punt shows a rugged face, gluteal and femoral obesity, hyperlordosis and symmetrical deposits of fat on the trunk, limbs and thighs.
The Future Of Business Networking Is (Nearly) Here

The Future Of Business Networking Is (Nearly) Here

Jul 18 2008 | comment(s)

BRISTOL, England, July 18 /PRNewswire/ -- MeettheBoss.com, the next generation business-networking tool for financial services executives all over the world, launches on Monday 18 August 2008.

MeettheBoss.com uses the latest Web 2.0 technologies and applications to bring the ease-of-use and interactivity of social networking to the business arena, together with finance sector-specific content from some of the world's leading C-level executives.

Registered users - including senior execs from AXA, Barclays, Citi, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, JPMorgan Chase, Visa, and Wachovia - can connect with each other quickly and securely.

The Downside To Open Access Science

The Downside To Open Access Science

Jul 18 2008 | comment(s)

Research shows that as more scholarly and research journals are available online, researchers are citing fewer of them - and they are primarily newer papers.

There's no question the Internet gives scientists and researchers instant access to a wealth of academic journals, a very good thing, but the impact hadn't been studied until recently. New research in Science says that scholars are actually citing fewer papers in their work, and the papers they do cite tend to be more recent publications. This trend may be limiting the creation of new ideas and theories.

James Evans is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Chicago, who focuses on the nature of scholarly research. During a lecture on the influence of private industry money on research, a student instead asked how the growth of the Internet has shaped science. "I didn't have an immediate answer," Evans said.

Nanorotors Detected Doing The Molecular Hula Hoop

Nanorotors Detected Doing The Molecular Hula Hoop

Jul 18 2008 | comment(s)

Humans have long been trying to make the dream of nanoscopic robots come true. It's getting closer each time nanoscience produces components for molecular-scale machines.

One such device is a rotor; a movable component that rotates around an axis. Trying to observe such rotational motion on the molecular scale is an extremely difficult undertaking but Japanese researchers at the Universities of Osaka and Kyoto have met this challenge. As Akira Harada and his team report in the journal Angewandte Chemie, they were able to get "snapshots" of individual molecular rotors caught in motion.

As the subject of their study the researchers chose a rotaxane. This is a two-part molecular system: A rod-shaped molecule is threaded by a second, ring-shaped molecule like a cuff while a stopper at the end of the rod prevents the ring from coming off. The researchers attached one end of the rod to a glass support. To observe the rotational motions of the cuff around the sleeve, the scientists attached a fluorescing side chain to the cuff as a probe.

Dendrites And Breast Feeding - The Oxytocin Effect Of Motherhood

Dendrites And Breast Feeding - The Oxytocin Effect Of Motherhood

Jul 18 2008 | comment(s)

Researchers from China, France, Italy, and the United Kingdom, have created a model that shows exactly how, when a baby suckles at a mother's breast, it starts a chain of events that leads to a surge of the "trust" hormone oxytocin in their mother's brain.

The Complex Ecosystem - Dust Storms In The Sahara Desert Sustain Life In The Atlantic Ocean

The Complex Ecosystem - Dust Storms In The Sahara Desert Sustain Life In The Atlantic Ocean

Jul 18 2008 | comment(s)

Research at the University of Liverpool has found how Saharan dust storms help sustain life over extensive regions of the North Atlantic Ocean.

Working aboard research vessels in the Atlantic, scientists mapped the distribution of nutrients including phosphorous and nitrogen and investigated how organisms such as phytoplankton are sustained in areas with low nutrient levels.

They found that plants are able to grow in these regions because they are able to take advantage of iron minerals in Saharan dust storms. This allows them to use organic or 'recycled' material from dead or decaying plants when nutrients such as phosphorous – an essential component of DNA – in the ocean are low.

Human Cytomegalovirus - A Viral Cloaking Device

Human Cytomegalovirus - A Viral Cloaking Device

Jul 18 2008 | comment(s)

Viruses achieve their definition of success when they can thrive without killing their host. Now, biologists Pamela Bjorkman and Zhiru Yang of the California Institute of Technology have uncovered how one such virus, prevalent in humans, evolved over time to hide from the immune system.

The human immune system and the viruses hosted by our bodies are in a continual dance for survival--viruses ever seek new ways to evade detection, and our immune system devises new methods to hunt them down. Human Cytomegalovirus (HCMV), says Bjorkman, Caltech's Delbrück Professor of Biology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator, "is the definition of a successful virus--it thrives but it doesn't affect the host."

Let's do some Reading on the Plausibility of Life

Let's do some Reading on the Plausibility of Life

Jul 18 2008 | comment(s)

I just got my hands on a recent book by two influential biologists, Marc Kirschner, chair of Harvard's recently created Systems Biology Department, and John Gerhart, a professor at UC Berkeley. Their book, The Plausibility of Life, lays out some influential ideas about where biological research should be headed, and it has stimulated a lot of discussion in the systems biology community. I think this book will be a useful vehicle to go over some provocative ideas about what the most exciting questions in biology are right now. So starting this weekend, we'll walk through this book here, chapter by chapter.
Positive Feedback Loops that Drive Cell Decisions

Positive Feedback Loops that Drive Cell Decisions

Jul 18 2008 | comment(s)

Dividing is one of the trickiest things a cell has to do. The cell needs to faithfully copy its entire genome, with very few mistakes, and it needs to then divvy up those two genome copies equally among the two new cells that are created during division. Going through this process is a bit like going down a double black diamond ski run: once you set things in motion, there's no stopping until you get to the end. In the case of cell division, there are two critical points of no return: at the decision to start replicating DNA, and when it's time to equally split up the chromosomes. A cell that's going to copy its genetic material had better be ready, with all the necessary supplies in hand, because once the copying process initiates, it's a bad idea to stop: a cell can't really do much with a half-replicated genome, and it's in danger of permanently ruining its genome. And it doesn't do you any good to successfully finish that copying process, only to misallocate what you've copied among the two daughter cells. Without the right chromosomes in each cell, there is only a slim chance of survival. So how do cells make these critical decisions?
Super-Resolution X-ray Reveals Buried Secrets Of The Nanoworld

Super-Resolution X-ray Reveals Buried Secrets Of The Nanoworld

Jul 18 2008 | comment(s)

A super-resolution X-ray microscope developed by a team of researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) and EPFL in Switzerland combines the high penetration power of x-rays with high spatial resolution, making it possible for the first time to shed light on the detailed interior composition of semiconductor devices and cellular structures.

The new instrument uses a Megapixel Pilatus detector (whose big brother will be detecting collisions from CERN's Large Hadron Collider), which has excited the synchrotron community for its ability to count millions of single x-ray photons over a large area. This key feature makes it possible to record detailed diffraction patterns while the sample is raster-scanned through the focal spot of the beam. In contrast, conventional x-ray (or electron) scanning microscopes measure only the total transmitted intensity.

ContourGlobal Receives Approval From OPIC Board For Financing And Insurance For Energy Project In Togo

ContourGlobal Receives Approval From OPIC Board For Financing And Insurance For Energy Project In Togo

Jul 18 2008 | comment(s)

NEW YORK, July 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- Largest electricity investment in Togo's history will double the Country's generating capacity

ContourGlobal Togo, a subsidiary of international power company ContourGlobal, received approval today for US$209 million in financing and political risk insurance from the Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) for the construction and operation of a power plant in Lome, Togo.

Unite NHS Members Say 'Cut My Pay - No Way!'

Unite NHS Members Say 'Cut My Pay - No Way!'

Jul 17 2008 | comment(s)

LONDON, July 18 /PRNewswire/ --

Unite members across the NHS will today (Friday 18th July) send a strong message to government to say: "Cut my pay - No Way!" In a national day of protest NHS staff will be making clear their anger against the derisory three year pay offer of 7.99 per cent. This action will mark the start of the Unite campaign against the imposition of the pay deal, this includes the possibility of Unite balloting its members on industrial action.

Union members are angry that the proposed three year award, worth 2.75 per cent in year one, 2.54 per cent in year two and 2.5 per cent in the third year, represents a significant pay cut in the current economic climate.