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Cell Therapy

New Digital Company Attacks Hard-To-Kill Cancer With Software

Tomas Kellner
August 01, 2016
Sorota was still a student in 1941 when he joined GE’s factory in Lynn, 10 miles north of Boston. He was soon plunged into the opaque world of the industrial war effort.
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Innovation that Cares

June 29, 2016
Indonesia is a thriving, expanding nation of over 250 million people. Yet it is a nation set over 17,000 islands, with significant challenges to healthcare provision.  According to 2013 research, Indonesia has just 1.07 hospital beds per 1,000 citizens[i]. Compare that to neighbour Malaysia with 1.9[ii] beds per 1,000 citizens, and you start to see the challenge. Now consider that challenge in the context of a population estimated to reach 300 million over the next 10 years.
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autism

How Magnetic Resonance Is Helping Doctors Diagnose Autism

Tomas Kellner
June 19, 2016
Tens of millions of people live with autism and thousands of doctors and scientists study it. But the condition remains shrouded in mystery. “Autism proves to be a sprawling, foggy and inconsistent field,” writes the author David Mitchell, whose son is autistic. “Causes are unknown, though many careers are fueled by educated guesses.”
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Sensors

Sweat Equity: These Wireless Skin Sensors Could Check Your Vital Signs And Monitor Your Health

June 10, 2016
Anil Duggal has always had a knack for invention — the GE Global Research chief scientist has 98 U.S. patents to his name. Now, with the support of his colleagues Jeff Ashe and Azar Alizadeh, Duggal is on the verge of turning years of abandoned research into what might be the world’s most advanced skin-surface medical sensors.
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Alzheimer's

Brain Changes Signal Alzheimer's 20 Years Before Symptoms Appear

June 08, 2016
The world may have just gotten an early warning alarm for Alzheimer's disease. Researchers in Sweden have uncovered changes in the brain that foretell the development of the brain disorder up to two decades before symptoms occur.
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History

When This 3,000-Year-Old Mummy Finally Got Her Checkup, Doctors Discovered A Surprising Secret

Tomas Kellner
June 05, 2016

In 1909, a New York businessman named Samuel Brown traveled to Egypt to purchase a pair of ancient mummies for the Albany Institute of History and Art, where he served as a board member. Brown and generations of subsequent researchers believed that he brought home a female mummy dating from the 21st Dynasty and a male one from the Ptolemaic period.

But when Emory University Egyptologist Peter Lacovara visited the institute in the early 2000s, he felt that the female mummy wasn’t in the coffin in which she was originally buried. Maybe it wasn’t a mummy of a woman at all.

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Precision Medicine

New Nuclear Scanner Gives Doctors An Inside View Of The Body

Tomas Kellner
May 20, 2016

For millennia, doctors hoping to catch a glimpse of what’s happening inside a patient had very few options aside from cutting the body open. But that changed in 1957, when American electrical engineer Hal Anger invented the gamma camera and doctors were able to see what was going on inside of cells.

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Biologics

Depeche Module: This Factory On Wheels Can Make The Latest Drugs In Distant Markets

May 15, 2016
The first GE engines used a radial — also called centrifugal — turbine to compress air streaming inside the engine and help it generate thrust. It was similar in design to older technology GE was using for turbo superchargers. Back at Lynn, Sorota started working on an engine with an axial turbine that pushed air through the engine along its axis. “The Whittle engine, when we took apart the compressor, was like a vacuum cleaner compressor,” he says. “It had a two-sided impeller that was very inefficient.
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Boston

GE Gives $50 Million To Boston For Schools, Clinics And Job Training

Tomas Kellner
April 04, 2016
GE will give $50 million in philanthropic funding for schools, job training and healthcare to Boston, its new home.
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Medical Imaging

This MRI Imaging Technique Helped Clinicians Unmask Silent Liver Disease

Tomas Kellner
March 24, 2016
Nobody wants to be told they are going to die. Yet that’s the prognosis Wayne Eskridge received from his doctors in 2010. The diagnosis was a stage-four case of cirrhosis of the liver. As he and his family despaired over the future, he received another medical opinion, saying this time that he was fine with no liver disease. He was counting his blessings, but later the emotional rollercoaster took another dive when the diagnosis reversed once more.
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