Professor Mindy Millard-Stafford researches in exercise physiology, including studies on how dehydration and exertion can reduce physical and cognitive performance. In the background, a volunteer lies on a device that measures body composition (l.) and another volunteer sweats out fluids under exertion in a heated chamber (r.). Millard-Stafford is Past President of the American College of Sports Medicine. Credit: Georgia Tech / Christopher Moore

As We Get Parched, Cognition Can Sputter, Dehydration Study Says

Atlanta, GA

Summer heat fuzzing your concentration? Making you fumble? It may be dehydration.

Bacterial Conversations in Cystic Fibrosis

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Georgia tech researchers obtain benchmark data for the impact of spatial arrangement in bacterial signaling in a cystic fibrosis model.

Daniella suffers from mucolipidosis IV, a hereditary disease for which there is no treatment. Georgia Tech and Mass General / Harvard Medical School are working to change that. Credit: ML4 Foundation with the express permission of Daniella's parents, only for use in reporting on this specific collaboration to fight MLIV.

In Child-Crippling Mucolipidosis IV, Drug Shows Hope in Lab Cultures

Atlanta, GA

Tests show initial hopes in the fight against Mucolipidosis IV, a rare but extremely crippling disease that strikes in infancy.

REMEMBERING OURSELVES

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Memories are essential for survival; understanding how the brain keeps these records is critical.

An artist's rendering of cancer cells clustering among healthy cells. Credit: iStock via rights purchase / not a press handout / not for redistribution outside Georgia Tech Generic cancer cell illustrations available at iStock/Getty Images.

Chemical Octopus Catches Sneaky Cancer Clues, Trace Glycoproteins

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Tiny cancer signals of the glycoprotein sort evade detection, but they'll have a hard time dodging the new "chemical octopus."

Three T-cells attack a cancer cell in this artist's depiction. Source: Getty Images / rights not transferable / not a press handout

Remote-Control Shoots Laser at Nano-Gold to Turn on Cancer-Killing Immune Cells

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A near-infrared light, similar to that of a TV remote, combines with gold nano-particles to flip a gene switch in T-cells to hyper-activate them inside of tumors.

Preventing Self-Contamination during Disease Outbreaks

Atlanta, GA

Researchers have identified risky behaviors of health care workers that may lead to self-contamination.

InVenture Prize finalist Scal-Pal redesigned surgical blade packages so they’re easier and safer to use. (Photo by Allison Carter)

A Safer Way to Handle Surgical Scalpel Blades

Atlanta, GA

The InVenture Prize finalist redesigned surgical blade packages so they're easier and safer to use.

Maelstroms in the Heart Confirmed

Atlanta, GA

Imaging technique enables observation of the vortex-like, rotating contractions that underlie life-threatening ventricular fibrillation.

Group A Streptococci, colored yellow, are the most common culprits in bacterial upper respiratory infections. Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the NIH

Want to Beat Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs? Rethink Strep Throat Remedies

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It's time to develop alternate drugs against small infections as a strategy to slow the antibiotic resistance crisis, Georgia Tech evolutionary bacteriologists say.