Gender in Biological Technology

Gender-Selection Technique Embraced for Hopeful Parents

... Couples can choose child's gender with less ethically charged method at ... chance of success of obtaining the desired gender at conception. Thousands of healthy babies have ... who may already have several children or the same gender and want a child of the opposite sex, this method ...

AbelsonTaylor Captures DTC Gold

... one -- was AbelsonTaylor's whimsical take on the gender Solutions Knee replacement for Zimmer Holdings ... until they come to a masterpiece -- the Zimmer gender Knee. The ladies are inspired and amazed at the ... said Dale Taylor, CEO of AbelsonTaylor. "The gender Knee, with its unique shape and size, is not ...

GRRL Tech Participant Offered Full Tuition Four-Year Scholarship to Roger Williams University

... workshops and with the support of local industry and academic settings, such as RWU, GRRL Tech works to raise technology awareness, break down gender and other industry myths and send a message to these young girls that in the 21st century they can pursue whatever dreams they can imagine. With the ...

Martek Announces First Quarter 2009 Financial Results

... or less) during the early weeks of life in order to achieve the DHA levels equal to those of a term infant. The results of a preplanned analysis by gender found that premature girls on the high DHA diet scored five points higher on the Bayley Mental Development Index than did the girls receiving the ...

Boston Scientific Announces Schedule for ACC 2008

... from Boston Scientific's comprehensive TAXUS clinical trial program. -- "Paclitaxel-Eluting Stents Are Effective in Higher Risk Patients: gender and Age Specific Sub-Group Analyses of the TAXUS OLYMPIA Registry" -- (Dr. Oscar Mendiz, et al., moderated e-poster session, March 29, 8:00 ....

Misperceptions About Smoking Cessation Aids May Hinder Smokers From Using Effective Treatment for Quitting

... understand about their risks of smoking, effects of nicotine and smoking cessation treatments. The data was weighted to adjust for age, ethnicity and gender using estimates from the 2006 National Health Interview Survey. The "average" respondent in the survey was 48 years of age and started smoking when ...

800-Year-Old Mummies Aid Current Cold Cases:

... in some cases, baking bones can aid in the extraction of DNA. This summer Coyle's team was asked by the Smithsonian Institution to identify the gender of mummified remains-thought to possibly be members of a murdered native family-gathered from a cave in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia. In a separate ...

Stuck in Talent Gridlock

... new jobs and responsibilities. Adding to these generational woes are gender inequalities. Women are increasingly finding corporate environments ... all-or-nothing mentality that pervades most corporations is stifling gender diversity (and more agile use of female talent) in the workplace. So ...

Gender hormones may lend to social disorder therapies

... Madison, Wis. -- gender politics aside, every biologist knows that men and women truly are ... bind to hormones such as testosterone and estrogen and set in motion gender blueprints for a lifetime. To understand why autistic children have ...

Work-life imbalance - A global problem getting worse

... this into actual practice, despite this having serious implications for gender equality and life satisfaction." This quote by a Dutch man is taken ... thinking regarding the ways market economies are implemented. Vexing gender equality issues must be sorted out. Experiments in workplace cultures, ...

CPM Helps Physicians Group Retain Patients with New Kind of House Call

... group the ability to vary many components of each message to recipients. Each individual message is developed based on the recipient's age, gender and health needs, and includes a photo of the person's physician and a premium offer, such as a first aid kit. For example, a young male might be ...

Firstlogic releases new postal service software

... the program would parse apart the information and place it in the correct fields. In addition, Firstlogics release allows for comprehensive gender assignment and personalization by assigning genders to mailing list names. By adding prefixes like Ms. Mrs. and Mr., and creating proper salutations, ...

Are you ready to play the new talent management game?

... on an hourglass shape in age distribution wide in the oldest (45+) and youngest (under 30) categories of workers and thin across the middle (31-44). gender participation will become roughly equal. Immigration will make the workplace more diverse. Technology will continue to improve workplace ...

CPM contributes marketing program to Michigan hospital

... the messages, each of the 108,000 postcards sent out was converted with CPM's printing technology. Messages and photos were customized around the gender and ethnicity of the recipient, building off 20 variations in the server. ...

Despite gains, women still face bias in science careers

... to them given the traditional profile of science and engineering faculty." Handelsman says that while significant issues remain to balance the gender equation at universities, there is evidence the climate is shifting. New programs have come into play aimed at leveling the academic science playing ...

The Croquet Project: An open source solution to the OS monopoly

... Madison, Wis. - In Victorian England, the game of croquet was a completely neutral area where social ranking and gender didn't matter, and people could share the latest news without inhibition. For the past few years, it has been the goal of a research team working ...

What color is your CEO's parachute?

... other perks) is one hell of a safety net and goes a long way in the wound licking department as well. The Sell-Out Swami In the interest of gender equal time: Mike Capellas, the former CEO of Compaq who co-engineered the ill-fated HP-Compaq merger, was less charismatic than Carly but just as ...

CIO Leadership Series: Bruce Maas, UWM

... we can use this opportunity to help mentor some of our better students for careers in IT," Maas said. "We believe that will help us achieve greater gender balance and diversity in our workforce." UWM recently hosted the annual STS Conference, where representatives of 10 other colleges learned how the ...

Medical College receives $11 million grant to study high blood pressure

... 13, impact salt-sensitive hypertension and kidney dysfunction. This initial project also will study the genetic and physiologic reasons for gender differences in the degree of hypertension and kidney damage. A second project will study one region of chromosome 13 to identify the gene or genes ...

UW gets $3M to explore educational gaming

... to communicate new ideas in the world of educational leadership. Elizabeth Hayes, a professor of curriculum and instruction, is investigating gender learning and ways to keep young girls interested and engaged in technology past the middle school level, when interest declines dramatically. ...

Online service makes board connections

... information. Since it is particularly difficult to find female and minority board candidates, the Website also asks for information pertaining to gender and race. "Organizations have the ability to search based on those parameters," Kral said. "It's been very beneficial for organizations to diversify ...

See how they run: Radio ads and Google

... though actual costs could be higher. Select specific metro areas (city, state, or ZIP) in which to run your ads. Target your message to gender and age of audience, and type of radio station. Choose start and end dates, days of the week, and time of day for your campaign. Set your ...

Media-savvy workers: New front in the War for Talent

... most sophisticated applications of information technology only at work. No more. Now, a large and growing number of people across the age, gender and socio-economic spectrum own or have access to all manner of gadgets, gizmos and Internet services that far exceeds, in variety and ...