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Microscopic 'Walkers' Find Their Way Across Cell Surfaces

Mit News
November 28, 2014

Technology could provide a way to deliver probes or drugs to cell structures without outside guidance.

Nature has developed a wide variety of methods for guiding particular cells, enzymes, and molecules to specific structures inside the body: White blood cells can find their way to the site of an infection, while scar-forming cells migrate to the site of a wound. But finding ways of guiding artificial materials within the body has proven more difficult.

 
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Edward Gerwin, Jr.: Building the Right Trade Policies to Support the Internet of Things

Edward Gerwin Jr Trade Guru Llc
November 25, 2014
On factory floors and from computers in Silicon Valley, GE is building what it calls the “Industrial Internet” — global networks that employ sensors, 
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Tackling Brain Injuries — Q&A with the NFL’s Jeff Miller

Jeff Miller Nfl
November 20, 2014
Preventing brain injury is a team sport. That’s why the NFL has teamed up with GE and Under Armour to promote some of the most innovative thinking on protecting against and diagnosing concussions.
 
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Kenneth Herd: Technology for Brazil, Technology for the World

Kenneth Herd GE
November 13, 2014
As Brazil sets its sights on becoming one the world’s top five oil producers by the end of the next decade, it is also demonstrating global leadership in another key area — innovation.
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What the GEek??!

November 13, 2014
At this year’s At Work 2014, Professor Sam Gandy gave us insight into his research on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), a disease commonly found in athletes or patients who regularly experience brain trauma.
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Anne Kim: How Maryland Is Wooing Foreign Startups

Anne Kim Republic 3 0
November 11, 2014
If you’re a foreign entrepreneur looking to break into the U.S. market, the State of Maryland wants to help.
 

On the third floor of a nondescript office building perched on a busy commercial strip in College Park, Maryland, foreign-owned startups can get a boost at the Maryland International Incubator, a first-of-its-kind incubator focused exclusively on foreign companies settling in the United States.
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The PetMR that GE built

November 10, 2014
What do you get when you combine Positron Emission Tomography (PET) with Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MR)? A 3D map of the human body and enhanced diagnosis and treatment for oncology and cardiology patients.
Traditionally, a PET scan would show up anomalies in the body, with an injected tracer that targets organs and identifies abnormal activity, but doesn’t pin point its exact location. An MR scan to follow would detail the body’s structure, allowing clinicians to specifically locate anomalies for treatment.
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Why Advanced Materials are Drivers for the Future Economy — Q&A with Angela Belcher

GE Look Ahead
Angela Belcher Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
November 07, 2014
Carbon fibre composites, ceramics, nanomaterials and other advanced materials with high-performance characteristics are increasingly finding their way into automobiles, building materials, clothing and other large consumer-oriented markets. Demand for carbon fibre-reinforced plastic is expected to grow 15% annually through 2020, for example, according to Deloitte.
 
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The power of an image: Best practices for examining dense breasts

November 07, 2014
Throughout October, the annual Breast Cancer Awareness Month, plenty of excellent information was shared far and wide, with pink ribbons, pink-iced cupcakes and pink pens among the pastel products pressed into service to raise funds for breast-cancer charities, and helping to remind women of the importance of self-checks and mammograms in early detection. But for all that valuable awareness, how assured are Australian women about knowing breast-cancer symptoms and risk factors, and how to approach them?
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Grayson Brulte: Revisiting the Doctor Visit

Grayson Brulte Brulte Company
November 05, 2014
Today we are more in tune with our health than any other time in history. This new focus on health and change in consumer behavior is largely being driven by startups in Silicon Valley and innovative tech companies around the world. The innovators are disrupting and consumerizing healthcare to the benefit of all of us.
 

As tech companies consumerize healthcare and create more frictionless experiences, it would behoove doctors to take notice and implement certain technologies and services into their practice to improve the patient’s overall experience.
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