On June 30, 1908 a stunning explosion rocked the forest near the Tunguska river in Siberia. Estimates were that an asteroid exploded in the air a few kilometers above the earth's surface with a…

PARIS, December 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The Altran Foundation for Innovation launches its 2008 Award to get onto the issue of reducing CO2 concentration in the atmosphere. Today, climate warming is…

MIT scientists have found a way to induce cells to form parallel tube-like structures that could one day serve as tiny engineered blood vessels. The researchers found that they can control the cells…

DEERFIELD, Illinois, December 17 /PRNewswire/ -- - Third-Generation TRAb Assay Delivers Unprecedented Specificity for Diagnosing Graves' Disease Siemens Medical Solutions Diagnostics (www.siemens.…

LONDON, December 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Misys plc (FTSE: MSY.L), the global application software and services company, today announces that it had been selected by UBI Banca International to help…

Time-lapse videos and computer simulations provide the first concrete molecular explanation of how a cell flexes tiny muscle-like structures to pinch itself into two daughter cells at the end of each…

ANTONY, GRENOBLE France, December 13 /PRNewswire/ -- STALLERGENES S.A and Protein'eXpert S.A. announce they have signed a partnership agreement for developing and pharmaceutically producing mites…

LUSTENAU, Austria and DALLAS, Texas, December 13 /PRNewswire/ -- IDENTEC SOLUTIONS recent acquisition of a Wtek, a global leader in providing active RFID solutions in the workplace, sets the stage…

Researchers at the University of Rochester have developed a shape-memory rubber that may enable applications as diverse as biomedical implants, conformal face-masks, self-sealing sutures, and “smart…

BURLINGTON, Massachusetts, December 12 /PRNewswire/ -- InterGen announced today the financial close and funding of credit facilities for its 428 MW natural gas-fired Rijnmond II project in Rotterdam…