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eradicating disease

Inoculation On Steroids: Fast DNA Vaccines Could Halt Weaponized Viruses Before They Spread

Fred Guterl
June 18, 2018
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The World Health Organization declared that smallpox had been eradicated in 1979, but the possibility that variola, the virus that causes this deadly illness, could surface in the form of a bioweapon engineered in a lab has worried military and public health planners ever since. A weaponized version immune to existing vaccine stockpiles could put billions of people at risk. In the event of an attack, scientists would have precious hours to develop and mass-produce an antidote.

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genetics

Forensic Files: GE's "CSI" Team On The Case To Enable Trace DNA Analysis

Todd Alhart
May 18, 2018
Located deep within GE’s Global Research Center in Niskayuna, New York, the lab looks like a set for a “CSI” episode. Inside, four scientists — a photochemist, two molecular biologists and a biochemist — are hard at work to supercharge one of the most important tools used by detectives all around the world: analyzing trace DNA found at crime scenes.
You know the drill from TV. Forensics experts scour a crime scene, using cotton swabs resembling Q-tips to collect forensic samples left by criminals on doorknobs, table surfaces and other areas.
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Innovation

The Waiting Game: With US Patent No. 10 Million Coming Soon, This GE Researcher Is Using Science To Hit It Big

Fred Guterl
May 15, 2018
One way for an inventor to feature prominently in the history books is to be an Edison, a Pasteur or a Tesla. Another is to hope your patent lands on a big, round number. (Of course, you can also try to do both.)
Samuel Hopkins’ improvement on “the making of pot ash and pearl ash” was not nearly as important as, say, Thomas Edison’s incandescent light bulb or Wilbur and Orville Wright’s “flying machine.” Instead Hopkins’ claim to fame is that his was the first patent issued in the United States, by President George Washington in 1790.
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power

Guiding Light: This Indian Village Could Show The Way To 1.5 Billion Who Lack Electricity

Maggie Sieger
March 16, 2018

When GE Global Research Center engineer Jayesh Barve arrived in Behlolpur, India, in February, he found children and adults from this remote village learning to read and write with the help of a new computer. The sight overwhelmed him. As recently as last fall, Behlolpur, located in Bihar province, had no electricity — much less computers. Villagers rose with the sun and lit candles or oil lamps at night, just like their ancestors centuries ago.

3D Printing

A Recipe For Disruption: GE's New 3D Printer For Metals Prints 10X Faster Than Its Current Machines

Todd Alhart
January 27, 2018
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GE engineers recently built and tested 30 different prototypes of a complex, football-size jet engine component. Thanks to cutting-edge 3D-printing technology, they were able to reach the perfect design in just 12 weeks. This is remarkable considering it would take several years to iterate on that many designs using traditional casting methods.

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Augmented reality

Change Of Heart: This Augmented Reality System Could Help Ultrasound Trainees Find Their Target

Kristin Kloberdanz
January 10, 2018
Human hearts, as most schoolchildren know, are located in the upper left side of the chest. But under the skin, things get murkier. In fact, medical workers occasionally confuse the heart with another organ when conducting an ultrasound scan, even when they are in the right location.
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Brothers In Arms: These Robots Put A New Twist On 3D Printing

Todd Alhart
December 15, 2017
In October, engineers at Avio Aero, a GE Aviation company, used a futuristic process called cold spray to repair a gearbox on the GE90, the largest and most powerful jet in the world. The technology uses a special supersonic nozzle attached to a robotic arm. The nozzle shoots a barrage of tiny metal specks at four times the speed of sound at metal components like the gearbox.
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3D Printing

Pedal To The Metal: This Engineer Wants To Supercharge 3D Printing With Powerful Lasers

Todd Alhart
December 14, 2017
3D printing has come a long way over the past 20 years. Engineers and designers already print jewelry, airplane parts, bone implants, and even toothbrushes directly from a computer file, layer by layer, using a laser or an electron beam.
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Robotics

Mr. Robot: Rodney Brooks Says Gentler, More Aware 'Cobots' Are Coming To Make Our Lives Easier

Tomas Kellner
November 17, 2017
Few people have done more to bring humans and robots together than Rodney Brooks. Two decades ago, the Australian inventor, mathematician and former MIT professor founded iRobot, the company that designed Roomba, a line of robots that zip around homes and clean dirty floors. Today, he’s still dreaming up clever ways to make robots do our dirty work — but in factories rather than living rooms.
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Industrial Internet

Night Watch 2.0: Meet The Digital Ghost In the Machine

Todd Alhart
October 16, 2017
Time was, outages on the power grid were the result of downed tree limbs. Trees and branches are still an issue, but power companies increasingly are worried about hackers and computer viruses. To wit, the ominously named malware Black Energy took out a grid in Ukraine in 2015 and caused 800,000 people to lose power. The threat is only increasing — year over year, cyberattacks on industrial control systems have increased by 55 percent.
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