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Nadeem Ishaque: Imaging the Brain in Real-Time

Nadeem Ishaque GE
October 02, 2014
Isaac Asimov described the human brain as “the most complicated organization of matter that we know.” Despite extraordinary advancements in multiple disciplines of science and technology over the last 100 years, our knowledge of the brain remains in its infancy.
 
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Janet Crawford: Innovation’s Neural Paradox

Janet Crawford Cascadance
September 30, 2014
Great innovations often seem stunningly simple and obvious…after the fact. Innovation happens, according to Matt Ridley, “when ideas have sex.” But why don’t more interesting ideas find ways to attract each other and mate? Why does innovation play hard to get?
 
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Here’s Looking at You, Kid: Get to Know Your Baby Before It's Born With 4D Ultrasound

September 16, 2014
There were people who thought that Italian priest and scientist Lazzaro Spallanzani had bats in the belfry. But he had bats on his mind.
Working in the late 1700s, Spallanzani showed that blindfolded bats could still catch flies and find their way around. But they failed miserably when he sealed up their ears. His discovery of the bat’s “sixth sense,” called echolocation, launched the science of ultrasound.

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The Art of Science: Take a Look at the Future of Brain Imaging

June 30, 2014

Three decades ago, engineers at GE research labs in Niskayuna, NY, built one of the first magnetic resonance machines and peered inside a colleague’s head. The result was the world’s first MRI image of the human brain. “This was an exciting time,” says John Schenck, a lead scientist on the project and also the test’s subject. “We worried that we would get to see a big black hole in the center. But we got to see my whole brain.”

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Decoding Mental Illness Treatment with DNA

May 28, 2014
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These Magnets Are 140,000 Times Stronger than Earth’s Magnetic Field and Can Peer Inside Your Head

May 14, 2014
A powerful magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine developed by GE is using a magnet that can generate a magnetic field that’s 140,000 times stronger than the Earth’s magnetic field. It could be used by researchers to investigate diseases and disorders ranging from cancer and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) – also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease – to brain trauma, epilepsy and autism.
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You Won’t Believe What This Machine Can See

April 20, 2014
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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.

Lifting the Fog of War: New High-Tech System Aims to Shed Light on IEDBlasts

July 16, 2013

GE is helping the Georgia Tech Research Institute develop a wearable wireless network of sensors and computers that could assist doctors in dealing with brain injuries caused by roadside bomb blasts.

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It’s Not Brain Surgery: These Earbuds Can Measure Brain Pressure, NoDrills Required

July 08, 2013
In 1953, Russian archaeologist A. D. Stolyar excavated a group of 14 skeletons from a Mesolithic cemetery near Kiev, Ukraine. One of the skulls found at the 7,000 year-old site showed signs of trepanning, the surgical removal of a small piece of bone from the cranium.
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