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Biologics

Ireland Is Building A Hub For Next-Gen Drugs

Dorothy Pomerantz
October 11, 2016
Ireland is a country perhaps best known for pints of the black stuff and rugged emerald vistas and James Joyce’s evergreen “Ulysses.” In medical circles, it also has a reputation as a pharmaceutical hub. With a population of just 4.5 million, Ireland is punching far above its weight in this industry.
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Just What The Doctor Ordered: GE Acquires Biosafe to Advance Cell Therapy

Dorothy Pomerantz
August 15, 2016
Cell therapy is the next great frontier in medicine. The treatment, which removes and, in some cases, genetically modifies cells and then places them into a patient, holds amazing potential to fight many diseases and disorders ranging from cancer to complications from diabetes, as well as rare ailments like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
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Biologics

Think Inside The Box: Pfizer Will Use GE's Mobile Biotech Factory To Make Next-Generation Drugs In China

June 30, 2016
Americans and Europeans are most likely to die from heart disease. But in China, the leading cause of death is cancer. The disease killed nearly 3 million Chinese in 2015 alone and the country's doctors have few drugs available to fight the epidemic. As grim as the numbers look, they could soon start changing. That's because healthcare reforms recently enacted by the Chinese government support local production of a next-generation class of drugs called biopharmaceuticals and new, flexible drug production methods.
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Antibiotics

Meet The Martyr Microbe: Killer Drug-Resistant Bacteria Blow Themselves Up To Empower Their Kin

May 21, 2016
They went back to their drawings, redesigned the compressor and started achieving higher thrust. Fort Knox, as well as the smokestack, still stands. Today, a small bronze plaque commemorates the feat.
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Medical Imaging

These Machines Helped Unveil Secrets Of The Human Body

Tomas Kellner
January 26, 2016
Thomas Edison’s light bulb patent was 15 years old when Wilhelm Roentgen discovered X-rays and proved their power by imaging the bones inside his wife's hand. "I've seen my death," she reportedly said after seeing the picture. But GE co-founder Elihu Thomson had longevity in mind. A year after Roentgen's discovery, he modified Edison's light bulb to emit X-rays and used it to build the first X-ray machine.
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AIDS

Dr. Hope And The OMG Microscope: These Scientists Are Seeking To Cure HIV And AIDS

Omar Khalil
Tomas Kellner
January 11, 2016
In a Chicago laboratory, a doctor called Hope is hunting the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS with a microscope so powerful that scientists call it the OMG microscope.
Thomas Hope is a professor of cell and molecular biology at the Hope HIV Laboratory at Northwestern University. He's is among a group of researchers using advanced tools developed by GE Healthcare Life Sciences to study HIV and AIDS and push for a cure.
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Medical Imaging

Beautiful on the Inside: These Machines Reveal the Secrets of the Body

October 05, 2015
If a good picture is worth a thousand words, then these images are visual equivalent of War and Peace. GE imaging technology - from MRI machines to high-resolution microscopes - offers incredibly detailed snapshots of the body all the way down to the cellular level.
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genetics

The Ultimate Coders: Revolutionary New Tool Can Rewrite DNA

October 01, 2015
At the most fundamental level, we are all code. The typical human body is an assembly of some 37 trillion cells, and each holds all the information needed to make a complete human being.
Our DNA, the double-stranded helix responsible for heredity, contains 3 billion letters that dictate everything from hair and skin color to blood type. In fact, DNA is the most important identity document we will ever carry. Besides random mutations and damage, it doesn’t change from the day we’re born.
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Healthcare

Pills on Wheels: GE is Building the World’s Largest Modular Biologics Factory

Conor Mckechnie
September 21, 2015
 
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Ancestors of Billion-Year-Old Microbes Might Hold Clues to Evolution, Antibiotics, Cancer

August 09, 2015
The acidic bowels of Yellowstone’s hot springs, roiling subsea volcanic vents, and many other deadly and inhospitable places hide colonies of microorganisms that have for centuries eluded scientists. The microbes are now helping researchers shed light on the very beginning of life on Earth, and improve everything from gold extraction and sewage treatment to cancer drugs.
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