Google announces an addition to Google Labs - the Public Data Explorer. The purpose of the new tool, Google says on the new lab's page, "The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate.

Trophos, the pharmaceutical company specialising in therapies for orphan diseases including ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig's disease), announces, on behalf of the MitoTarget consortium, the launch of MitoTarget Online. The multilingual web-based resource aims to be the first point of call for all of those affected by ALS.

EU-funded researchers have sequenced the genome of the community of microbes that lives in our guts. The study sheds new light on the influence of these microbes on our health and could lead to the development of new treatments and diagnostic tests for a variety of diseases.

Physicians will significantly expand the range of activities they conduct on mobile devices by 2012, according to Manhattan Research's "Future of Physician Media" report. Currently physicians primarily use mobile devices to access clinical content and perform quick tasks.

The Research Partnership in Cognitive Aging, a public-private effort to promote the study of brain function with age, will award up to $28 million over five years to 17 research grants to examine the neural and behavioral profiles of healthy cognitive aging and explore interventions that may prevent, reduce or reverse cognitive decline in older people.

Scientists across the world now have access to a powerful new tool not just to present their research, but also to have it discovered by a global audience. No longer do researchers or smaller labs have to worry about their hard work going unnoticed by other scientists, or have to feel restricted to print journals to communicate their ideas.

EU-funded scientists have discovered that the presence of low levels of a type of antibody in the immune system increases the chance of having a stroke, one of the leading causes of death worldwide.