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Augmented reality

Virtual Reality Bites: 6 Ways Industry Is Harnessing The Power Of VR And AR

August 15, 2019

The future’s made of virtual insanity, warned Jay Kay, the lead singer of Jamiroquai, in a 1996 megahit. The song “Virtual Insanity” imagined a bleak world where we’d all live underground in a simulacrum of reality afforded by “useless technology.” But there’s no sign of this subterranean dystopia in 2019: Humans are still an aboveground species, and virtual and augmented reality technology (VR and AR, respectively) is seriously funky.

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The Vanguard

The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Sam Worley
May 13, 2019

Microscopic viruses could be ammunition in the fight against antibiotics resistance, a new technique could solve a shortage of lungs for transplants, and an effective, low-cost method of desalination could make industrial waste less toxic. Things are really looking up in this week’s coolest scientific discoveries.

 

Turning A Phage On Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

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medicine

Life-Saving Lessons: GE Takes Safe-Surgery Funding To Southeast Asia

P D Olson
October 12, 2018
Odetha Deus remembers trembling earlier this year when hospital staff told her they’d need to perform an emergency C-section on her, and for good reason.
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The Vanguard

The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Samantha Shaddock
Tomas Kellner
June 01, 2018
"Scientists in Japan built a finger for a robot from bioengineered muscles, a bracelet-like brain-machine interface from CTRL-labs can turn any surface into a keyboard by eavesdropping on nerves in your wrist, and ingestible bacteria designed at MIT could help doctors diagnose disease. We have plenty more food for thought this week. Keep reading.
 

 

Pumping Iron
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medicine

Good Pill Hunting: How Biotech Fell In Love With Beantown

Tomas Kellner
May 14, 2018
Boston is home to what might be the world’s premier biotechnology cluster. It includes big pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer and Sanofi, plucky upstarts such as Editas Medicine, a gene-editing company, and many research labs. GE’s own biotechnology business, GE Healthcare Life Sciences, recently moved its U.S. headquarters into the area.
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medicine

Cellular Gastronomy: Data-Driven Cuisine For Cells Is Helping Nurture A New Generation Of Drugs

P D Olson
April 24, 2018
Hamsters are happy to stuff their cheeks with food, but their ovarian cells — a key weapon in the battle against cancer, arthritis, hemophilia and other scourges — are far pickier eaters.
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Valentine's Day

Don't You Want Me, Baby? This Brain Imaging Contest Can Show You the Love

Tomas Kellner
February 14, 2018
How deep is your love? Neuroscientist Melina Uncapher devised a system in her lab that can supply an answer.
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
September 15, 2017
Researchers in Philadelphia figured out why eating fewer calories can lead to longer lives, scientists in Shanghai built a tiny power plant that uses blood flow to generate electricity inside the body, and a team in Seattle set a record by transmitting information across 1.7 miles with “almost zero power.” We roger that, science.
 

Staying Alive
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Chasing Dreams: The Women Engineering Vietnam’s Future

August 26, 2017
Part 1: Le Thi Thu Hang of GE Healthcare
Chasing dreams is never easy. But for the women helping to engineer Vietnam’s future, chasing dreams has offered both challenge, and hard-earned reward.

Vietnam is a nation with a strong record of promoting gender equality, with one of the most engaged female labour forces in the world. Yet women persistently face challenges and as a nation we must come together to address.
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medicine

GE's “In The Wild” Series Goes Under The Hood of a CT Machine

June 05, 2017
In the time it takes for your heart to beat once, GE Healthcare’s Revolution CT scanner can capture a detailed picture of your body. What sorcery is this? Alie Ward and Adam Savage, the hosts of GE’s web series “In The Wild”, go under the machine's hood to find out in today’s episode.
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