GE Wins $143 Million Deal To Power The King Stallion, America’s Next Largest...
Sometimes you have to be more than super to be No. 1. For four decades, Sikorsky’s CH-53E Super Stallion ruled the American sky as the nation’s largest and most powerful helicopter. But the...
View ArticleSurvivor: This Woman’s Battle With Leukemia Is Pointing The Way To The Future...
In the spring of 2016, 32-year-old Nicole Gularte grew weak and lost her ability to see colors from her left eye. She knew that her leukemia had returned.Gularte’s form of the disease was called acute...
View ArticleEngineered By Women For Women: Colleagues Band Together To Take Fear Out Of...
Study after study has shown that detecting breast cancer early can dramatically improve the chance of healing and survival1. “Mammography has been proven to reduce mortality by 20 percent2,” says...
View ArticleData Vision: This X-Ray App Could Help Hospitals Cut Costs
Hospitals can feel pain, too, and computer scientist Karley Yoder is using artificial intelligence to treat it.Yoder and her colleagues at GE Healthcare are working on apps that enable healthcare...
View ArticleLove At First Touch: Brazilian Doctor Uses 3D Printing To Help Blind Parents...
When Ana Paula Silveira got pregnant, she and her husband, Alvaro Zermiani, dreamed about seeing the face of their child during her first ultrasound exam. But weeks later, they got to feel it...
View ArticleHere’s Looking At You, Kid: A High-Tech Ultrasound Opens New Vistas For This...
When Dr. Lawrence Platt started his career as an obstetrician and gynecologist 40 years ago, he was fascinated by ultrasound technology. Each time he scanned a patient, he created a grainy...
View ArticleData Therapy: This Japanese Hospital Is Taking A Page From The Digital...
For a patient with an acute illness, there’s no graver enemy than time. A diagnosis a week too late, surgery that runs too long — these can be the dividing lines that separate life and death.But at...
View ArticleThis Woman’s Dog Knew Something Was Wrong. 3D Automated Ultrasound Confirmed It.
Karen Edelmann’s Doberman, Apollo, developed an odd habit several months ago. He started nudging Edelmann beneath her left breast. Never her right breast, always her left and in the same spot each...
View ArticleMatrix Reimagined: Brand New GE Startup Is Developing Novel Ways To Draw Blood
Every time Risa Stack has her routine blood work done, she brings a book to keep her mind occupied and a candy bar to boost her blood sugar. She also alerts the nurse that she might faint. “It’s a...
View ArticleArriving Early: 12 Weeks Premature. 45 Days In The NICU. 1 Family’s Story.
In September 2017, Natalie Ray was 28 weeks pregnant with her second child when she felt a pain beneath her rib cage. She assumed it was indigestion, but when it kept her up all night, she called her...
View ArticleThe Polar Bear Pitch: Why Frigid Finland’s Slush Is Hottest Place For...
Late November isn’t the best time to visit the Finnish capital of Helsinki. The days are short and gray, the weather is cold, and the streets are covered with slippery slush ushering in a long winter....
View ArticleThe 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
It’s time to get excited about monkeys using mind control to move robotic arms and algae that tells time. We’re also keen to try a microscopic data recorder made up of microbes. Meanwhile, scientists...
View ArticleAI Healthcare Expert: Doctors And Machines Make A Brilliant Match
It’s kind of a no-brainer that Dr. Keith Dreyer would be among those who lead the advance of artificial intelligence into healthcare. Dreyer is a rare breed, a radiologist who teaches at Harvard...
View ArticleAll Shook Up: From Elvis’ Car to Jet Engine Parts, 3D Printing Is Sweeping...
Walking around Munich this week feels like stepping into a Christmas card. A dusting of snow lines the peaked roofs and cobblestoned streets in the city center, creating the perfect backdrop for the...
View ArticleLeading Light: One Microscope, Lots Of Nobel Prize Winners
The internal clock that tells us when to wake up, when to eat and when to go to sleep might seem mundane, but it was the basis of research for this year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or...
View ArticleHow A California Utility Used A Battery To Jumpstart A Power Plant
Music fans traveling northwest on highway 86 toward the Coachella music festival next year might not give the rolling hills of California’s Imperial Valley more than a passing glance. But energy...
View ArticleThe 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
NASA scientists reinvented the wheel in preparation for further space exploration, a woman who was born without a womb delivered a healthy baby, and lab-grown patches are keeping mouse and rat hearts...
View ArticleFuture Perfect: South Of Boston, GE Is Helping Build The City Of Tomorrow
During World War II, the Weymouth Naval Aviation Station, just 10 miles south of Boston, was home base for 12 military blimps that protected the New England coastline by keeping watch for German...
View ArticleFrom Gigawatts To Gigabytes: New “Mission Control” Center Will Help New...
Charles Proteus Steinmetz, one of the leading lights who spread electricity across America a century ago, often pointed out that energy in the form of heat, water or steam was the raw material of the...
View ArticleExtreme Measures: Souped-Up Black Hawk Helicopters Are Helping Crews In...
Crews in California are fighting another deadly wave of wildfires, which have killed and injured dozens of people, burned millions of acres and destroyed thousands of structures. In December, for...
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