Organ donation: the clock is ticking for public awareness

The Clock Is Ticking

THE CLOCK IS TICKING on my last year as editor in chief. It’s now either a bit over two months into 2014 (as I write this) or just under halfway through (by the time you read this), so this is an opportune time to revisit goals and priorities while there’s still time for corrective action. Managing IEEE Software for the past three years has been a fun and fascinating endeavor, in no small part ...

Organ Donation Awareness: Rethinking Media Campaigns

The Clock Is Ticking: Countdown to Metastases

Metastases cause more than 90% of the morbidity and mortality associated with human cancers. Gene expression signatures associated with cancer progression and metastasis serve as unique tools to assist in patient diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment. Various types of signatures have been identified, ranging from those that are tumor-intrinsic or specific to a particular cancer subtype [1] to gen...

The clock is ticking as the clot thickens.

According to the United Nations Population Division, the number of people who are over the age of 65 will approach 1.5 billion, or 16% of the population, by the year 2050. The fastest-growing segment of the population is the “oldest old,” ie, age 80. In North America and Europe, this group will jump from 10 million in 2010 to almost 40 million by 2050. These staggering demographic changes will ...

The clock is ticking: the sound of a ticking clock speeds up women's attitudes on reproductive timing.

The "biological clock" serves as a powerful metaphor that reflects the constraints posed by female reproductive biology. The biological clock refers to the progression of time from puberty to menopause, marking the period during which women can conceive children. Findings from two experiments suggest that priming the passage of time through the sound of a ticking clock influenced various aspect...