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Promising research raises the possibility of treating diabetes without drugs. Across three animal models researchers have demonstrated how bursts of ultrasound targeted at specific clusters of nerves in the liver can lower insulin and glucose levels.

Although there are already devices that can tell you how many calories are in your food, they require you to input data regarding the type of food that you're eating. A scientist at GE, however, is developing a gadget that could instantly display the caloric content of any food placed within it.

GE researchers have developed a new type of refrigeration technology using magnets that is more environmentally friendly and is predicted to be 20 to 30 percent more efficient that current technology ... and could be in household fridges by the end of the decade.

With the world’s first laser enrichment plant having received US approval for production in 2012, the stage has been set for a radical change in the industry. So how does laser enrichment work, and what commercial benefits, along with proliferation concerns, does this new process present?

GE Global Research is developing robots to pick, inspect, sterilize and deliver surgical instruments in hospitals.

GE Healthcare has introduced new technology aimed at making MRI scanners much quieter.

GE's Durathon is a new vehicle battery that in tandem with a lithium battery and a hydrogen fuel cell, increases power and range.

General Electric has unveiled a new fabric-based wind turbine blade technology which promises to increase the efficiency, and reduce the cost, of wind turbines.

GE's AquaSel is a non-thermal brine concentrator technology that reduces waste streams at bottling plants to almost zero.

GE has announced five Innovation Award winners and ten new commercial partnerships resulting from Phase II of it Ecomagination Challenge.

Journalist Pierce Hoover and his 13-year old son are crossing the U.S. in a home-built pedelec vehicle, determined to use no more power in a day than would be used by leaving an electric light bulb switched on.

The second phase of GE's ecomagination challenge is concentrating on innovations for capturing, managing, and using energy in the home.