LONDON, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Despite renewed threats of an academic boycott of Israeli academics, more than 200 scientists from leading UK and European universities will gather in London next week at a two-day symposium with a group of top scientists from Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science. The symposium is hosted by UCL with speakers and participants coming from Cambridge, Oxford, Imperial, Edinburgh and other leading UK academic institutions.

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Amsterdam Molecular Therapeutics (Euronext: AMT), a leader in the field of human gene therapy, today announced that it obtained a license from 'TIGET' San Raffaele Telethon Institute For Gene Therapy, Italy, to use their micro-RNA technology to prevent immune responses against gene therapy for Hemophilia B. This technology enables AMT to accelerate the development of AMT-060 (AMT's AAV-based gene therapy for this seriously debilitating disease).

A detergent solution developed at The University of Texas at Austin that treats donor nerve grafts to circumvent an immune rejection response has been used to create acellular nerve grafts now used successfully in hospitals around the country. Research also shows early promise of the detergent solution having possible applications in spinal cord repair.

The solution – combined with an enzyme treatment conceived at the University of Florida in Gainesville – is licensed by AxoGen, an Alachua, Florida-based company, and is used to create an acellular nerve graft from human cadaver tissue, called AVANCE Nerve Graft. Nationwide, nearly 100 patients suffering nerve injuries have received AVANCE grafts, all involving peripheral nerves which transmit sensory information between the brain and muscles.

A new study in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology reviewed the behavior of participants exposed to various HIV brochures. Researchers found that both men and women were likely to avoid gender-mismatched brochures. Women, however, were more likely to approach gender-matched brochures over gender-neutral brochures.

Kathleen C. McCulloch and Dolores Albarracin of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Marta R. Duranti from the University of Florida looked at the behavior of 350 volunteers consisting of both men and women who were African American, European American, or Latino, with over half having an average income under $10,000.

Participants were exposed to six HIV-prevention brochures, two of which were gender-targeted and four of which were gender-neutral. The study was conducted at the Florida Department of Health in Alachua County. Participants were then given the chance to watch an HIV-prevention video and participate in an HIV-prevention counseling session.

Be warned: this article deals primarily with shark attacks, the lottery, beer, and how to get a date using math. Is it a good decision to keep reading? Unfortunately, the answer is "you need to keep reading to find out."

Sound irrational? Good—your massively irrational mind should have no problem with it, then.

Consider this: every year when the Discovery Channel broadcasts "Shark Week" visits to Florida beaches decline. Presumably, the network's programming makes the waters no less safe (assuming sharks are not, in fact, empowered by cable television). However, after watching a week of kicking legs seen from below, the idea of shark attack is refreshed in our minds and we choose not to offer ourselves as bait.

This phenomenon is known as an availability heuristic — a heuristic being a rule-of-thumb. Our rationality is subverted by easily available sensationalist images.

PARIS and SAN FRANCISCO, June 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Orange and Apple today announced that the iPhone 3G will be available in Austria, Portugal and Switzerland on July 11and in France on July 17. It will launch in additional markets across Europe, the Middle East and Africa later this year. Orange will begin taking pre-orders for iPhone 3G later this month. iPhone combines three products into one small, lightweight device-a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod, and it puts the Internet in your pocket with the best email, web browsing, search and Maps applications ever on a mobile phone.

FREMONT, California, June 9 /PRNewswire/ --

New Roadrunner Supercomputer, the World's Most Powerful Computer, Deploys over 2 Petabytes of Panasas Parallel Storage to Improve Simulation Performance.

CALGARY, Canada, June 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Addax Petroleum Corporation (TSX: AXC and LSE: AXC) ("Addax Petroleum" or the "Corporation") today made the following announcement.

It is with regret that Addax Petroleum reports the death of a Nigerian Navy personnel member following the defense of a vessel which had been contracted by the Corporation to provide security services on OML126, offshore Nigeria. During the incident four other Navy personnel and crew were injured. Addax Petroleum would like to extend its sympathy and sincere condolences to the family of the deceased over this very sad loss and extend our support for a full and speedy recovery for the injured.