Slideshow: GE lights up life science
In the spring of 2005, a team of applied physicists and electrical engineers from the General Electric Company filed into pathology laboratories at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, taking notes on their clipboards and clicking their stopwatches. Day after day, they went from laboratory to laboratory to watch as clinical researchers section and stain tissue - "Click" - examine it under a fluorescent microscope - "Click" - take digital images - "Click" - analyze expression patterns or scribble diagnoses.
"I had worked in these lab environments," says Michael Montalto, a biologist at GE, "but nobody else at GE had. So, I knew it was important that these scientists had an idea as to what the market was going to look like." Montalto's team, working on GE's first Advanced Technology initiative, analyzed ...
