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Commercial Drones Set to Soar as Investors Climb Aboard

November 19, 2014

Starting in the late 1980s, the Pentagon launched a top-secret constellation of two-dozen navigation satellites designed to guide U.S. nuclear missiles precisely to their targets. Then the Cold War ended, the technology shed the uniform, and put on civilian clothes. We know it as the Global Positioning System (GPS), and millions of drivers, hikers and bikers use it daily to find their bearings and map their workout routines.

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This Discovery Will Make You See Red

November 17, 2014
Who invented the color red? Well, nobody of course. But in another sense, you might say that Nick Holonyak did in the modern era, when he created the red LED at GE’s labs in 1962. Now, materials scientist Anant Setlur has reinvented the color. Working with a team of researchers at GE Lighting and in Europe, Setlur found and patented a way leading to the perfect red light.
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Taming North Dakota’s Gas Flares

September 10, 2014
A few years ago, astronauts orbiting the Earth started seeing a strange patch of lights flickering in a formerly dark corner of North Dakota. The region is going through an oil boom and the lights, which are spread over an area larger than Minneapolis, are flares burning up natural gas from hundreds of new oil wells in the Bakken shale formation.
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Start Me Up: How Unused Patents Fuel Entrepreneurship

April 16, 2014

Vadu Inc. is a Canadian startup using sophisticated face recognition algorithms and data analytics to study customer behavior. Like many young companies, it’s racing to convert ideas into products and compete on the market.

“We can study people’s movements and behaviors,” says Jason Randhawa, chairman and CEO of Vadu. “We can watch how they interact with the product and employees on the floor, analyze their reactions and sentiment, and see what they like or don’t like about the experience.”

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Testing the Water: RainDance is Stalking Cancer Drop by Drop

March 03, 2014

RainDance Technologies is developing new “liquid biopsy” systems using tiny droplets separated by oil to analyze DNA. Researchers using the technology are evaluating its ability to identify whether the samples may contain cancer, viruses, pathogens and markers released by the immune system.

The new tools could allow doctors to test tumors and cancer cells with a simple needle prick. RainDance, which is based in Billerica, Mass, just received a new $16.5 million round of financing from a group of investors including GE’s venture capital arm, GE Ventures.

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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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Fantastic Voyage: GE Invests in Bowel Surfing Capsule that May Help Doctors Detect Colon Cancer

February 03, 2012
There are better ways to pass time than prepping for a colonoscopy. This week, the GE healthymagination fund invested in Israeli company called Check-Cap Ltd. seeking to change that experience.
Inside knowledge: Check-Cap’s capsule may help doctors screen for polyps, the precursors of colorectal cancer.
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