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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

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
May 06, 2016
In the summer of 1942, 10 months after they started, the engineers loaded the first pair of working jet engines, each producing 1,300 pounds of thrust, onto a railcar and shipped them to the Muroc Army Air Field, in California’s Mojave Desert. The aircraft designer Larry Bell was working in parallel with the GE team and building America’s first jet, the XP-59. On Oct. 2, 1942, the plane soared to 6,000 feet, a small first step for a technology that ended up shrinking the world.
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Personalized Medicine

Reengineer This Body: New Center Will Help Scientists Reprogram Cells To Fight Disease

Tomas Kellner
Erin Bryant
January 20, 2016
Emily Whitehead was just 5 years old when she fell ill with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, the most common type of childhood cancer. Most kids beat the disease within two years, but Emily relapsed twice after several rounds of chemotherapy.
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