Boeing’s largest passenger jet, the 747-8 can carry more than 450 passengers in a cabin 20 feet wide and more than 200 feet long. Using this massive space as a canvas, Greenpoint Technologies, based in Kirkland, Wash., recently completed work on a 747-8 with a VIP interior for a private owner.

This is the first jet of its kind to be outfitted for personal use, and Greenpoint has released few details about it, declining to name the client or provide photos of the finished product. But the company has release…

New building to serve as “entryway” to Kimmel Cancer Center

The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins will use a $65 million gift toward the construction of a new patient care building that will be named for the late Albert P. “Skip” Viragh, Jr., a Maryland mutual fund investment leader and philanthropist. A pancreas cancer patient treated at Johns Hopkins, Mr. Viragh died of the disease in 2003 at age 62.

The Skip Viragh Outpatient Cancer Building is slated for completion in 2017 an…

Listening to the crystal-clear tones of Audemars Piguet’s new Royal Oak Concept RD#1—completely audible from across the room—epitomizes the sort of transcendent moments that can occur at the annual Swiss watch shows. Even though the watch is not a commercial product, and has no future release date announced, to hear it is to know that a page has been turned in the development of the complication. And while the Concept RD#1 may have stolen the show, there were plenty of other significant release…

Tumor cells penetrated by particles carrying genetic instructions.

Working together, Johns Hopkins biomedical engineers and neurosurgeons report that they have created tiny, biodegradable nanoparticles able to carry DNA to brain cancer cells in mice. The team says the results of their proof of principle experiment suggest that such particles loaded with “death genes” might one day be given to brain cancer patients during neurosurgery to selectively kill off any remaining tumor cells without damaging no…

Often the best remedy for the winter blahs is to just jump into the cold and embrace it with a good workout. In Vermont, where they know a thing or two about getting outdoors, hotels in a couple of our favorite towns have dreamed up some imaginative cures to energize their guests before they pamper them.

The Woodstock Inn & Resort, in the center of the picturesque village of the same name, already has a Nordic center for cross-country skiing and a private ski mountain amusingly named Suicide Six that ha…

Children delivered by cesarean section and those given antibiotics during early infancy appear more prone to developing allergic inflammation of the esophagus — the muscular tube that connects the mouth to the stomach — according to results of a study by investigators from the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and Harvard Medical School.

The findings, published online May 2 in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice, reveal that early antibiotic treatment and C-section delivery may so…

Originally revealed at the 2014 Los Angeles Auto Show, the Audi Prologue concept made a follow-up appearance at January’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, in a new gasoline-electric hybrid version that features Audi’s latest autonomous driving technology.

This revolutionary new concept, from its Matrix laser headlights to its low grille, is a bold opening gambit for Marc Lichte, Audi’s new chief designer. Inside the cockpit, flexible 3-D LED screens surround the driver. With a swipe of the hand, the …

New designs from the Hong Kong–based jeweler Wallace Chan pair a range of colorful gemstones with innovative setting and carving techniques in statement-making designs that command attention. Here we share a selection of our favorite designs. (wallace-chan.com)

The 72 dealers and galleries chosen to exhibit at the Art Show must bring their A games. Hosted by the Art Dealers Association of America at the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan, the show is subject to space limitations that do not allow all 180 members of the association to take a booth. Many in the 2015 show, which takes place March 4 through 8, earned places on the strength of their promised displays, ensuring that everybody—especially the ticket-holding public—wins.

New York’s Galerie St. Etienne will ce…

Biomarkers may predict traumatic brain injury outcomes.

When it comes to predicting outcomes following a child’s traumatic brain injury, rehab physicians may have more questions than answers. After all, says Johns Hopkins pediatric physiatrist Stacy Suskauer, symptoms can last from hours to years, “and we lack objective biomarkers with which to predict outcome, inform treatment and evaluate the risk for chronic sequelae.”

Suskauer, who also directs Brain Injury Rehabilitation Programs at Johns Hopkins’ n…