Genetically modified foods are the enemy, say some activists, but organic foods have caused all the salmonella say others. The food safety message is a mess and Americans lack confidence in the system because of it.

A new national study conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health Project on the Public and Biological Security finds that, though there have been food safety incidents in recent years, Americans are confident that the food produced in the United States is safe but have concerns about the safety of imported food produced in some other countries.

The poll found that a majority of Americans believe that the food produced in the U.S. is either very (37%) or somewhat (58%) safe. Only 4% thought US-produced foods were unsafe. When asked about foods available in the U.S. but produced in other countries, fewer than one in ten (6%) considered foods from Canada to be unsafe. In contrast, almost half of Americans (47%) thought food from Mexico was unsafe, and 56% thought this about food from China. Possibly responding to these concerns, about half (53%) of Americans reported at least sometimes looking for information about what countries foods come from when shopping for groceries.

ZUG, Switzerland and CATANIA, Italy, June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- AmVac AG, a Swiss biopharmaceutical company based in Zug, is starting its first research cooperation program with Bayer Innovation GmbH on the development of a new influenza vaccine. Joint research and development work is beginning with the Bayer subsidiary Icon Genetics GmbH on a novel production approach. Antigens are to be produced for the first time in tobacco plants which along with AmVac AG's adjuvant MALP-2 are to be developed into an efficient new generation of flu vaccines. The research unit for the preclinical work is being opened today at the Parco Scientifico e Tecnologico in Catania, Sicily.

MUNICH, Germany, June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Chip PC Technologies, a leader in desktop replacement and thin computing, today announced that it will be introducing its Desktop Virtualization solutions supporting the Citrix XenDesktop(TM) delivery solution alongside with its new class of Desktop Appliances.

MCLEAN, Virginia and BUDAPEST, Hungary, June 12 /PRNewswire/ --

Genetic Immunity, a US/Hungarian clinical-stage Company focused on the development of its patented nanomedicines for targeted immune amplification, announced today that the Company will be promoting Hungarian biotech and the country's emerging Nanomedicine leadership position on the international stage at the 2008 Bio International Convention to be held June 17-20, 2008 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, CA.

MOSCOW, June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The music video for the song "Wanted, but Free" by the Russian band Delta has become the most watched video on the internet. The clip, based on the sensational video about a "crazed office worker" was revealed to be a commercial for the film WANTED. You Tube listed it this week as the top downloaded video.

ROCHESTER, New York, June 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- European and Asian Markets Served with New Signalling Network using SEGway(TM) STP Signalling Solution

Performance Technologies (Nasdaq: PTIX), a leading developer of communication platforms and systems, today announced that Elephant Talk, (OTC Bulletin Board: ETLK), an international telecom and multimedia content distributor, has put into service the company's SEGway(TM) STP Signalling solution to deliver advanced mobile service offerings such as SMS-based chat, mobile games, and mobile e-commerce services to its customers.

LEUVEN, Belgium, June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- KFH has announced that it has been awarded the prestigious Emerging Company of the Year 2008, in the European Pain and Wound Management category.

KFH's CEO, Henk Snyman, MD, says: "We are delighted to have achieved recognition from a respected company such as Frost & Sullivan. We have achieved several milestones in 2008, and are realizing our vision to create a continuous stream of state-of-the-art, portable medical devices from our proprietary technology platform." Dr Snyman added : "We are at present seeking additional growth capital to fund our ambitious expansion goals."

In a report in the current issue of the journal Cell, Dr. Hugo Bellen and colleagues at Baylor College of Medicine along with Dr. Michael Miller from the University of Alabama at Birmingham show how a single mutation in the human form of the VAMP-Associated Protein B (VAPB) contributes to the nerve and muscle breakdown in flies and worms, similar to ALS in humans. They found important clues about what goes wrong in the nerves and muscles of people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease.

The story actually begins around 500 years ago, when a Portuguese immigrant to Brazil brought along an uninvited guest – a mutation in the gene for VAPB. That mutation leads to a rare form of inherited ALS that has so far been identified in about 200 people. ALS is a devastating disease that begins in middle age and affects nerves and muscles, destroying the individual's ability to move, talk, swallow and breathe, eventually killing the person who has it. There are an estimated 30,000 people with ALS in the United States alone. It affects people of all ethnicities worldwide.

Scientists are deploying an advanced research aircraft to study a region of the atmosphere that influences climate change by affecting the amount of solar heat that reaches Earth's surface.

Findings from the project, based at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), will be used by researchers worldwide to improve computer models of global climate in preparation for the next report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

The project, running from April to June, is known as START 08 (Stratosphere-Troposphere Analyses of Regional Transport). It focuses on a remote boundary zone of the atmosphere called the tropopause, which sits at the bottom of the stratosphere. Scientists are increasingly interested in the tropopause, because of both its importance in the global climate system and because the buildup of greenhouse gases has altered this atmospheric region in ways that are not yet fully understood.