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Europe and Eurasia: U.S. Science Envoys Travel to Africa, the Pacific Islands, Europe, and Southeast Asia
Three U.S. Science Envoys are traveling now and throughout the rest of July to several locations in Africa, the Pacific Islands, Europe, and Southeast Asia: Dr. Jane Lubchenco completed a week-long trip to South Africa, and traveled to Mauritius...

From Devastation to Determination: Global Travel Auction Offers Dream Trips to Save the Oceans
Sea Save Foundation rises from fire loss to launch a global SCUBA travel auction. Bid on dream trips and help fund urgent ocean conservation worldwide. MALIBU, CA, UNITED STATES, April 28, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- When fires swept through the...

New Support for CAMERA to Develop Computational Mathematics for Experimental Facilities Research
Experimental science is evolving. With the advent of new technology, scientific facilities are collecting data at increasing rates and higher resolution. However, making sense of this data is becoming a major bottleneck. New mathematics and...

Lion One Announces High Grade Highlights of Its Fully Permitted Tuvatu Gold Project in Fiji
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwired) -- 04/25/16 -- Lion One Metals Limited (TSX VENTURE: LIO)(ASX: LLO)(OTCQX: LOMLF) ("Lion One" or the "Company") announces today that a new investor presentation "High Grade Highlights" has been added to...

Pernix (Fiji) Limited Operation and Maintenance Agreement With Fiji Electric Authority for Kinoya and Vuda Power Plants Extended
LOMBARD, Ill., Jan. 21, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pernix Group, Inc.’s (OTCQB:PRXG) subsidiary, Pernix (Fiji) Limited, announced the award of a thirteen (13) year Fiji Electric Authority (FEA) operations and maintenance (O&M) contract at the...

Lion One Chairman Walter Berukoff Announces Red Lion Credit Facility, Corporate Update, and Fiji Operations Review
NORTH VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwired) -- 12/16/15 -- Lion One Metals Limited (TSX VENTURE: LIO)(ASX: LLO)(OTCQX: LOMLF)(FRANKFURT: LY1), ("Lion One" or the "Company") announces that Red Lion Management, a private merchant banking...

Which Beverage Brands are Online Audiences Drinking Up? Monster Energy, Coca-Cola, Simply Orange and FIJI Water are Quenching the Thirst of Social Media Followers
TORONTO, ON -- (Marketwired) -- 10/19/15 -- Technology and data company, Engagement Labs (TSX VENTURE: EL), creator of the eValue™ score, today released the rankings of non-alcoholic beverage brands in the water, energy drink, soda and juice and...

Visitor Industry Expanded in March 2025
Posted on Apr 30, 2025 in News For Immediate Release: April 30, 2025 HONOLULU—According to preliminary statistics from the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism (DBEDT), total visitor arrivals and total visitor spending in March...

Tertiary Scholarships and Loans Service Receives 2025 Global Recognition Award for Digital Innovation in Educational Financing
Photo Courtesy of The Tertiary Scholarships and Loans Service (TSLS) NEW YORK, March 19, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Tertiary Scholarships and Loans Service(TSLS) has been honored with a 2025 Global Recognition Award for its innovative approach...

Dual-localized PPTC7 limits mitophagy through proximal and dynamic interactions with BNIP3 and NIX
Introduction Mitophagy, or mitochondrial-specific autophagy, is a conserved organellar quality control process that promotes the selective turnover of damaged or superfluous mitochondria (Pickles et al, 2018; Uoselis et al, 2023). During...

Parcus Group and Telecom Fiji to Collaborate on Product Management
Parcus Group announced today that it has been selected by Telecom Fiji to deliver product management training and software licenses for service creation tools. SUVA, SIJI, November 18, 2014 /EINPresswire.com/ -- As a global provider of product...

Nrg1 intracellular signaling regulates the development of interhemispheric callosal axons in mice
Introduction Schizophrenia (SZ) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that affects cognitive processes and social behavior (Harrison & Weinberger, 2005; Lewis & Sweet, 2009). Unlike other neuropathologies, the brains of SZ patients do not display...

Activation of the Keap1/Nrf2 pathway suppresses mitochondrial dysfunction, oxidative stress, and motor phenotypes in C9orf72 ALS/FTD models
Introduction Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is characterised by the loss of upper and lower motor neurons leading to symptoms such as muscle weakness and paralysis. A plethora of evidence supports a clinical, pathologic, and genetic overlap...

Nanobodies as novel tools to monitor the mitochondrial fission factor Drp1
Introduction Mitochondrial morphology is controlled by the balance between two opposing processes, fusion and fission. These highly regulated events adapt the cellular mitochondrial network to the bioenergetic requirements of the cell and maintain...

Plastics Dialogue midpoint review charts path towards MC14
Guatemala expressed appreciation for the Dialogue’s progress on the workplan and signalled its readiness to contribute its domestic perspectives. Opening remarks were delivered by Ambassador Omar Zniber, from Morocco. Stressing trade’s role as a...

DECLARATION OF DENGUE FEVER OUTBREAK FOR SAMOA
[PRESS RELEASE – APIA, 17 April 2025] – The Ministry of Health is officially declaring a dengue fever outbreak in Samoa. There has been a significant increase in the number of suspected and confirmed cases, particularly in Upolu, over the past two...

Off-targets of BRAF inhibitors disrupt endothelial signaling and vascular barrier function
Introduction Melanoma is a highly aggressive form of skin cancer and is associated with a high mortality rate (Schadendorf et al, 2018). According to previous literature, ∼50% of melanomas harbor mutations in the BRAF gene, of which the vast...

IpaA reveals distinct modes of vinculin activation during Shigella invasion and cell-matrix adhesion
Introduction Vinculin is a cytoskeletal linker of integrin-mediated matrix adhesions and cadherin-based cell-cell junctions (Goldman, 2016; Bays & DeMali, 2017). It plays an important role in cell adhesion processes, motility and development and...

West Red Lake Gold Provides Madsen Mine Restart Activities Update
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Sept. 04, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- West Red Lake Gold Mines Ltd. (“West Red Lake Gold” or the “Company”) (TSXV: WRLG) (OTCQB: WRLGF) is pleased to provide an update on activities at the Madsen Mine as the Company...

Trim66s paternal deficiency causes intrauterine overgrowth
Introduction Sexual reproduction entails the mixing of the two parental genomes at each generation. In mammals, the male gametes are required to travel outside the body and survive for several days in the female oviduct to fertilize the oocyte....