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Don’t Laugh: How Lack of Helium Fuels Innovation

September 26, 2014
Brigitte Prat runs Lulu’s Cuts & Toys, a popular hair salon for kids in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood. She rewards new bobs with pretty orange balloons, but the practice is growing costly. “I used to put one on every arm and every stroller that rolled through my store, but now I keep them behind the counter,” she says. “I am paying an arm and a leg for my helium.”
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True Blue: Saving Tiny Lives With LED Lights

September 25, 2014

When Dr. Rajesh Kumar meets his patients for the fist time, they can often fit into the palms of his hands.

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Metal Machine Music: DJ Matthew Dear Talks about His Aural Adventures in GE Labs

September 18, 2014
Two years ago, the artist and musician David Byrne created a series of installations called Playing the Building, in which he converted cavernous warehouses in New York, London and Minneapolis into gigantic musical instruments.
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Das Instant Auto: Say Hallo to a Hot Rod Powered by Water

September 10, 2014
The intriguingly named Quant e-Sportlimousine has been making a splash in Europe, where it was just approved for road use.
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It’s in the Blood: Microbubbles Help Biologist Jason Castle See Inside the Body

August 22, 2014
In emergency medicine, the “golden hour” is the time immediately following a trauma when intervention is most likely to save a life. Ultrasound researcher Jason Castle has experienced these critical moments first hand in his other role as a volunteer EMT in upstate New York. When he responds to emergencies, he often loses precious time trying to decode symptoms. “You try to understand the patient’s medical history, monitor the vitals and if you suspect a cardiovascular emergency, you take him to the hospital for tests,” say Castle, who works at GE Global Research in Niskayuna, NY..
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Meet the Fearbit: New Sweat Sensors Will Sniff Out Fatigue, Stress and Even Fear

August 12, 2014

Sweat can be a smelly messenger, but one that also carries a trove of valuable information about how our bodies are feeling. Scientists at several labs are now trying to pick its lock with nanotechnology, including know-how transferred from GE’s jet engine research, to develop flexible, Band-Aid-like wireless sensors sensitive enough to detect a drop of biomolecules found in sweat in 2.5 million gallons of water.

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Ge基于hpv检测的新型fta卡片开创宫颈癌筛查新模式

August 10, 2014

2014年8月11日,上海------GE中国研发中心"在中国为中国"项目再添重彩,其研发的基于HPV检测的新型FTA卡片开创了宫颈癌筛查新模式。

宫颈癌是威胁全球女性健康的第二大恶性肿瘤,据世界卫生组织2008年统计数据,每年约有50万宫颈癌新发病例,27.4万死亡病例,其中80%以上发生在发展中国家。据2012年中国国家癌症中心统计,每10万人中就有7.42人患宫颈癌,1.64人死于宫颈癌。

数据显示,99.7%的宫颈癌与人乳头状瘤病毒(HPV)感染相关 。宫颈癌是世界上唯一可明确发病原因的恶性肿瘤,检测HPV病毒感染情况可以在癌症发生前提前提示癌症发生的风险,从而有效预防和提前治疗。

据美国癌症综合网络发布的由17位权威专家草拟的宫颈癌筛查规范,女人一生中筛查宫颈癌3次以上,可将宫颈癌的患病机率下降80%左右,这种优势在30岁以上的妇女中尤为明显。英国、香港等发达国家和地区,育龄女性定期进行宫颈癌筛查已有多年历史,从而使宫颈癌的发病率明显下降。

然而,如何解决中国几亿适龄女性,尤其是偏远地区的农村妇女的宫颈癌筛查一直是个难题。


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More Than Money: IPO Takes GE Finance Arm in a New Direction

July 31, 2014

When the Audax Group acquired Aavid Thermaloy, a top maker of heat sinks and cooling systems for everything from PCs to EVs, in late 2012, the private equity firm used a loan from GE Capital to close the transaction. Sounds like a plain vanilla financing deal, but it did not stop there.

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Ge发布2014年全球创新趋势报告:协同创新为最有效方式,中小企业成主要驱动力

July 29, 2014

中国,北京,2014年7月 ------近日,通用电气(NYSE: GE)发布2014年"全球创新趋势报告",探讨了世界各地的企业为追求创新而采取的变革行动。报告显示,企业正在积极改变内部流程和架构------鼓励创新行为、开展和其他企业的合作以扩大竞争优势,并利用大数据和分析以更好地了解客户和市场动态。
根据2014年"GE全球创新趋势调查报告",创新正日益成为一个在全球范围内的"本土化"竞争。成功地创新,既需要在全球范围内与外部资源合作,同时在国家和地区层面,又需要对本土市场与客户的深入理解和本土化策略。在这一创新的"全球本土化"过程中,中国企业强大的快速吸收和再创造能力使得中国得以在全球知识和网络中获益,不断摸索适合自身的创新方式。
在中国的受访企业中,有近四分之三的高管表示中国近年来生活质量的提高很大程度上得益于创新。这种对创新的积极力量的广泛认知和政府强有力的支持正在促使中国企业不断对自己的创新模式进行创新,从"追随"和"模仿"到探索"中国式创新"。


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The New Power Generation: This Fuel Cell Startup Could Spark a Revolution

July 22, 2014
There’s more than one way to get energy out of natural gas. For decades, one of the most promising methods – and also most difficult to pull off ‑ has been the fuel cell.
A fuel cell works like a battery, using a simple chemical reaction to provide energy. In fuel cells, this reaction involves hydrogen molecules abundant in natural gas and oxygen from ordinary air.
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