Science Education & Policy

SAN JOSE, California, April 15 /PRNewswire/ -- - Company announces strategy for product renaming, outlines plan for new solutions in key device categories and unveils first developer certification. Today at Embedded Systems Conference Silicon Valley 2008 in San Jose, Microsoft Corp laid out the next phase in its strategy for the Windows Embedded Business, providing a strategic road map outlining the renaming of its family of products and plans for new solutions in key device categories. The new key device category solutions will be offered under the Windows Embedded Ready name and will ship…

ATLANTA and LONDON, April 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Infosecurity Conference 2008 -- Lancope(R), Inc., the provider of the StealthWatch(TM) System, the most widely used network behaviour analysis (NBA) and response solution, today announced a panel discussion at Infosecurity Europe 2008, in which several leading universities will discuss how StealthWatch leverages NetFlow and sFlow in its delivery of NBA to secure and continuously monitor high-speed networks. Managing network security is a major issue for all organizations, but it is especially challenging for the higher education market.…

PARIS, April 15 /PRNewswire/ -- - The International Transport Forum, 28-30 May 2008 in Leipzig "Transport and Energy: The Challenge of Climate Change" Dr Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and last year's Nobel Peace Prize winner is to address the International Transport Forum on "The Challenge of Climate Change" to be held in Leipzig, Germany from 28-30 May 2008, announced Jack Short, Secretary-General of the International Transport Forum on Tuesday in Paris. "The work of the IPCC provides the scientific basis for linking human activities to…

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A new method that uses nanotechnology to rapidly measure minute amounts of insulin is a major step toward developing the ability to assess the health of the body’s insulin-producing cells in real time. Among other potential applications, this method could be used to improve the efficacy of a new procedure for treating Type 1 (juvenile) diabetes that has demonstrated the ability to free diabetics from insulin injections for several years. It works by transplanting insulin-producing cells into the livers of diabetics to replace the cells that the disease has disabled or destroyed. The new…

PALO ALTO, California, April 14 /PRNewswire/ -- - FMS presents 'the Colossus' NexentaStor based solution with industry leading storage density Nexenta Systems, Inc., developer of NexentaStor(TM), the leading enterprise class storage management software taking an open source approach to market, is pleased to announce that Enterprise Certified partner FMS is presenting this week at the Intel Solutions Summit, April 14-16 in Rome, Italy. The Intel Solution Summit is Intel's invitation only summit for Intel Premier Partners. The Colossus includes 60 1terabyte hard drives, two Intel Xeon quad…

LONDON, April 14 /PRNewswire/ -- - ATTN: Yorkshire Editors A Group of people with multiple sclerosis (MS) in Yorkshire are being denied access to a vital drug that has been proved to be the most effective treatment for their condition. Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust has failed to provide people living with a rapidly evolving and severe form of MS access to Tysabri despite being legally required to do so by the Government's drugs watchdog. MS is the most common disabling and incurable neurological disorder affecting the central nervous system in young adults. Tysabri has been proven to…

AMSTERDAM, April 14 /PRNewswire/ -- - New and Forthcoming Enhancements Designed to Optimize Research Workflows Elsevier, a leading publisher of Scientific, technical and medical (STM) information, today announced that new intuitive reference and navigational features have been added to its online STM platform, ScienceDirect. The new features, which were developed in cooperation with researchers, deliver clearer results with fewer clicks. Additionally, researcher comments and ratings from 2collab, Elsevier's free Web-based collaborative platform, will be integrated with the articles in…

LONDON, April 14 /PRNewswire/ -- A poor complexion and spotty skin is something that many hope to leave behind in their teenage years, but unfortunately not everybody grows out of skin problems. In fact, rosacea (pronounced roh-ZAY-sha), is an extremely distressing skin complaint that can affect 1 in 10 UK adults in their 30s and onwards. Often their symptoms are mistakenly associated with alcohol consumption, or their spotty skin is confused with acne. This is because in its early stages rosacea is typified by facial flushing, redness and often pimples in the central part of the face. As it…

Researchers at Duke, Caltech, Stanford and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have developed a living system using genetically altered bacteria that they believe can provide new insights into how the population levels of prey influence the levels of predators, and vice-versa. The Duke experiment is an example of a synthetic gene circuit, where researchers load new "programming" into bacteria to make them perform new functions. Such re-programmed bacteria could see a wide variety of applications in medicine, environmental cleanup and biocomputing. In this particular Duke study, researchers…