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Heady Times: This Scientist Took the First Brain Selfie and Helped Revolutionize Medical Imaging

November 18, 2015
Early one October morning 30 years ago, GE scientist John Schenck was lying on a makeshift platform inside a GE lab in upstate New York. The itself lab was put together with special non-magnetic nails because surrounding his body was a large magnet, 30,000 times stronger than the Earth’s magnetic field. Standing at his side were a handful of colleagues and a nurse. They were there to peer inside Schenck’s head and take the first magnetic resonance scan (MRI) of the brain.
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Gravity: Forgotten Space Escape Pod Could Bring Sandra Bullock Home Safe

March 01, 2014
Anticipating Sandra Bullock’s problems in Alfonso Cuarón’s Oscar-winning feature gravity, a team of GE engineers proposed in the 1960s a design for a single-person space escape pod called Man Out of Space Easiest (later changed to Manned Orbital Operations Safety Equipment), or MOOSE.
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DIY Cancer Test: Cancer Scare Pushed Young Physicist to Design Her Own Breast Exam

February 03, 2014

A few years ago, Ileana Hancu, a young physicist at GE Global Research, left her lab for a routine physical exam and came back with troubling news: the doctor apparently felt a lump in Hancu’s breast. What followed was an odyssey through the achievements of modern medicine, from mammography, to ultrasound and near biopsy.

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The Simple Goals of Complex Systems: Nobel Laureate James E. Rothman Talks About Nanomachines, Cutting Through the Fog, Personalized Medicine and the Benefits of Becoming Fish Wrap

October 15, 2013

On October 7, biologist James E. Rothman received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine together with colleagues Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof. Rothman is a professor of biomedical sciences at Yale. Over the last decade he has served as a senior advisor to GE Global Research in Niskayuna, NY. He is also a former chief scientist at GE Healthcare. GE Reports managing editor Tomas Kellner talked to Rothman last week about his discovery, innovation, and GE.

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Built For Speed: F1 Team Ushers In NextGen Race Car Using Advanced GE Tech

September 27, 2013

In Ron Howard’s brand new Formula 1 car-racing movie Rush, the legendary driver Niki Lauda gives his rival James Hunt a sage piece of advice: “To be a champion, it takes more than just being quick.”

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Meet the Makers: 3D Printing Design Challenge Finalists Have Global Roots

September 17, 2013
The maker movement is a big community of students, manufacturing enthusiasts and hobbyists using cutting edge tools and design software to find better ways to make things. In the U.S., they meet in TechShop workshops and flock to Maker Faire fairs to innovate and exchange ideas. But the results of GE’s latest manufacturing challenge show that the movement resonates far beyond America’s borders. It is an international affair.
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Voyager 1 Becomes First Man-Made Object to Leave Solar System; Probe Still Powered by GE Technology

September 12, 2013

A new research paper published today in the journal Science concluded that the Voyager 1 spacecraft became the first man-made object to leave the solar system and enter interstellar space. The journal says that “after long disagreements, that is now the consensus view of Voyager mission team leaders.” The 35-year old spacecraft is still relying on GE technology, including command computers and power generators.

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Enter The Dragon: GE, Dragon Innovation Launch New Hardware Crowdfunding Platform

September 05, 2013

It almost always takes a village to bring a new product from the garage to market. From concept to capital and manufacturing to distribution, it takes many hands to turn, say, the Apple I into the Macintosh.

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The Right Stuff: GE Tech Has Been at the Launch Pad since the Dawn of Space Flight

September 04, 2013
Humans have been sending objects and each other to space for close to 50 years. GE technology has been near the launch pad since the beginning. On March 17, 1958, for example, a GE-powered Vanguard rocket blasted the Vanguard 1 satellite to space. That probe is today the oldest man-made object in space. (The first two Russian Sputniks and the U.S. Explorer 1 that preceded it fell back to earth decades ago.)
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The Art of Science: Supercomputers Help Scientists See What Microscopes and Cameras Can’t Capture

August 30, 2013
Scientists at GE Global Research have been using the world’s most powerful supercomputers to simulate everything from fuel flowing through jet engine nozzles to water drops turning into ice. The results can be rewarding beyond solving research riddles. “Many times our work generates images that are visually breathtaking,” says Rick Arthur, who leads the Advanced Computing Lab at GRC.
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