CHALFONT ST. GILES, UK & MENLO PARK, Calif. - GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), and Geron Corporation (Nasdaq: GERN) today announced that they have entered into a global exclusive license and alliance agreement to develop and commercialize cellular assay products...
Twenty months after partnering with Google to deliver cloud computing to universities, IBM is pushing into the business market in a bigger way with new products and services for on-demand, self-service IT capabilities. IBM is introducing “purpose built” cloud appliances, new public cloud services, and...
Yesterday First Lady Michelle Obama announced the release of $10,867,945 in grants to community health centers in Wisconsin. The grants will help address immediate and pressing health center facility and equipment needs and increase access to health care for millions in Wisconsin. The money...
The Governor’s budget and the economic recovery bill he signed earlier this spring, contain a number of initiatives to move toward an economy that is stronger than ever and built around the things we value: education, entrepreneurship, manufacturing, agriculture and science and technology. These provisions will...
Last year, Scott Allocco spent 12 hours sitting on a downtown Baltimore sidewalk, waiting to turn in his application to get a tax credit for the angel investors who'd promised to give money to his cancer diagnostics company, BioMarker Strategies. He was the third company...
“They do not have anything that could reach here, or do they?” questions James Carlini. The threat of nuclear bombs is such a remote possibility today that no one really thinks about it anymore. Or do they? According to the nuke-o-meter there are 8187...
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today released a series of new reports on the health care status quo that highlight the urgent need for health reform across the nation. The new reports are available at www.HealthReform.gov and include information on health care cost and quality in...
Health care provider Kaiser Permanente has one foot in the future as it works to transform the health care industry with technology. At the Kaiser Permanente Sidney R. Garfield Health Care Innovation Center in San Leandro, Calif., state-of-the-art gadget testing and innovation is happening throughout...
President Obama wants your advice on how the government should keep its secrets. A month ago, he issued a memorandum directing national security advisers to recommend ways to improve the rules by which records are classified and later opened to the public. Starting Monday, tech-savvy citizens...
BIRMINGHAM, Mich. — General Electric Co. said Friday it will build a $100 million manufacturing technology center in Michigan that will eventually employ about 1,200 workers. The Advanced Manufacturing and Software Technology Center will include a GE research and development facility with scientists and engineers who...