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Fantastic Voyage: GE Invests in Bowel Surfing Capsule that May Help Doctors...
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...
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It’s Not Brain Surgery: These Earbuds Can Measure Brain Pressure, NoDrills...
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...
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Testing the Water: RainDance is Stalking Cancer Drop by Drop
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...
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Taming North Dakota’s Gas Flares
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,...
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Someone’s Gotta Do It: This Collaborative Robot Does the Dull Jobs Few Humans...
A manufacturing robot is hardly chummy chap. Set off from its flesh-and-blood coworkers inside a safety cage, its powerful metal biceps easily lift, weld and shape massive machine parts. People can...
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Rethink Robotics is Freeing Robots From Their Cages
When the Czech writer Karel Capek started working on his science-fiction play R.U.R., he asked his brother Josef what he should call the humanlike machines at the center of the play. Josef, who was a...
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3 Responsibilities For Men And Women To Close The Gender Gap
How do you talk about the gender gap with male colleagues and our children? Sue Siegel, CEO of GE Ventures, discusses our shared responsibility to close the gender gap — and her biggest professional...
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