babies

There's a new dynamic in the stem cell debate

...le of producing a healthy baby. Roughly 1,000 such babies have been born without any noticeable harm. The cell that is removed from the embryo also can be used to derive stem cells, but more testing is needed to evaluate whether it can produce stem cells that are comparable to those derived in existing met...

Fact and friction: Putting election-year stem cell claims under the microscope

...nkfully, science has yet to figure out how to make babies outside the womb. Green is correct, however, that the starting points for therapeutic cloning and human cloning (if such a despicable act were possible) are the same. But the question may be moot: No scientist in Wisconsin engages in therapeutic clo...

Milwaukee's software mecca

...nd-delivery rooms at hospitals require mothers and babies to wear I.D. bracelets, and the company provides hospitals with the technology they need to make these bracelets. The huge boom in RFID use at the retail level has created new opportunities. If a large retailer needs its products to be labeled with ...

Separating science fiction from reality in the human cloning debate

...ealth of the mother but almost certainly producing babies with birth defects. Those were side effects during the process that led to the cloning of Dolly the sheep. But cloning for therapeutic reasons meaning, carefully regulated research into disease using human embryonic embryos is an entirely differen...

Keep your tech employees happy

... people. Buffer them. Technology people are not babies or rare flowers needing to be kept away from sunlight. Still, dont create an environment where a period of intense (and profitable) concentration is likely to be broken every few minutes. As much as possible, both the physical workspace for technica...

The black hole of corporate branding

...with names or razor lines on skinned heads or name babies after brand names. Hey Rolex, come to mama and play with Infinity. The hungry souls want something, just about anything, as long as it is a name, one could brag or chat about. Companies created great items and developed great name identities. The bu...

Storytelling makes a comeback in an unlikely place

...t, a village bands together to recover a series of babies drowning in a lake, but cannot keep up with the pa...ce. A little girl becomes curious as to where the babies come from, and finds a giant ogre throwing them in out of the villagers sight. She goes back and ma...

Life Science: From the arts to the outdoors: Living and Playing in Wisconsin

...e U.S. average. The percentage of low-birth weight babies (6.6 percent versus 7.8 percent), the poverty rate (8.2 percent versus 11.9 percent), the health uninsured rate (9.8 percent versus 15.2 percent) and the violent crime rate (225 per 100,000 residents versus 495) are evidence of a strong social fabric...