Scientists with UCLA’s Jonsson Cancer Center and the Department of Urology have showed that lowering intake of the type of fat common in a Western diet helps prevent prostate cancer in mice, the first finding of its kind in a mouse model that closely mimics human cancer, researchers said.

The study, which appears in the April 15, 2008 issue of the journal Cancer Research, focused on fat from corn oil, which is made up primarily of omega-6 fatty acids, or the polyunsaturated fat commonly found in the Western diet. Omega-6 fats are found in high levels in baked and fried goods, said William Aronson, a Jonsson Cancer Center researcher and the study’s senior author.

Researchers fed one group of mice a diet with about 40 percent of calories coming from fat, a percentage typical in men eating a Western diet. The other group received 12 percent of their calories from fat, a figure considered to be a very low fat diet. Researchers found there was a 27 percent reduced incidence of prostate cancer in the low-fat diet group. Aronson also studied cells in the prostate that were precancerous, or would soon become cancer, and found that the cells in the mice eating the low-fat diet were growing much more slowly than those in the high-fat group.

HELSINKI, May 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Mobile signatures are a success, concludes a new report from Forrester Research. Tapping in to a growing trend, Forrester conducted research exclusively covering mobile signatures and has just published their findings, titled Extending Mobile Identity Beyond Authentication, which is now available free of charge through the Valimo Wireless website - http://www.valimo.com.

GENEVA, Illinois, May 14 /PRNewswire/ --

Media representatives from accredited news organizations are invited to observe live hair restoration surgeries and interview an esteemed international panel of hair restoration physicians at "Made in Italy," a joint hair surgery workshop hosted by the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (ISHRS) and the Istituto Dermopatico dell'Immacolata (IDI).

PORTOROZ, Slovenia, May 14 /PRNewswire/ --

- Microsoft is helping the EEA to inform Europeans on changes to environmental conditions in real time - and empowering citizens to play their part in data gathering.

MAIDENHEAD, England, May 14 /PRNewswire/ --

- PREVENAR Shown to Reduce Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in Young Children

Data presented at the 26th annual meeting of the European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID) in Graz, Austria, provide additional evidence of the public health impact of the routine use of Prevenar* (Pneumococcal Saccharide Conjugated Vaccine, Adsorbed), which helps protect against the seven pneumococcal serotypes causing the majority of disease worldwide.(1)

LONDON, May 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Online Media Technologies Ltd. launches a new online portal which features the collection of freeware for home video and audio management. All free solutions presented on http://www.avs4free.com are the innovative programs of Online Media Technologies Ltd. which concentrates on the development of high-quality software. AVS4FREE applications have no time or feature limits and are absolutely free.

Having about thirty video and audio software in its product line Online Media Technologies Ltd. releases AVS4FREE.com, a separate online portal with only multimedia freeware. AVS4FREE.com doesn't require any user registration to download and use the software for free.

PALO ALTO, California, May 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Facebook today announced another step towards enabling anyone in the world to communicate and share information with the people they know, regardless where they live or what language they speak, by releasing the site in Polish. Current users who want to view Facebook in Polish can change their language preference from their account settings, and beginning today, any person who goes to http://www.facebook.com from Poland will see the site in Polish.

A study investigating aging in mice has found that hormonal changes that occur when mice eat significantly less may help explain an already established phenomenon: a low calorie diet can extend the lifespan of rodents, a benefit that even regular exercise does not achieve.

“We know that being lean rather than obese is protective from many diseases, but key rodent studies tell us that being lean from eating less, as opposed to exercising more, has greater benefit for living longer. This study was designed to understand better why that is,” said Derek M. Huffman, the study’s lead author.

The study applies only to rodents, which are different in some key ways from humans, cautions Huffman.

CALABASAS, California, May 14 /PRNewswire/ --

- M13 Stompbox Modeler provides a massive collection of celebrated stompbox sounds, stunning effects and an easy to use looper -

Line 6, Inc. (http://www.line6.com), the industry leader in modeling technology, announces M13 Stompbox Modeler, an all-in-one stompbox experience featuring sought-after stompbox sounds and an easy-to-use looper in a brawny box that's built for the stage.