opportunities wasted. All of our development work -- child survival, maternal and child health, child protection -- all of it in the most disadvantaged communities hinges on educating girls, as well as boys.
VOA: standard.2010.05.19
Undaunted, the CEA, a group whose 2, 200-plus members include just about everyone having to do with electronics, from Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) to Gibson Guitar, wasted no time in getting to work.
For one thing, it signals that these companies are finding ways of using these new technologies to make their medicines more effective --making for better odds in getting Food and Drug Administration approval and reducing money wasted testing drugs that won't work in human beings.