Craig Forest, an assistant professor of bioengineering in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech, holds the microfluidic chip used in the study. The chip has narrow passageways to simulate the coronary arteries. Credit: Rob Felt.

Microfluidic Device With Artificial Arteries Measures Drugs’ Influence on Blood Clotting

Atlanta, GA

A new microfluidic method for evaluating drugs commonly used for preventing heart attacks has found that while aspirin can prevent dangerous blood clots in some at-risk patients, it may not be effective in all patients with narrowed arteries.

Researchers from Georgia Tech and Emory University have developed a new type of biomolecular tweezers that could help researchers study how mechanical forces affect the biochemical activity of cells and proteins. (Image courtesy of Lizhi Cao)

Biomolecular Tweezers Facilitate Study of Mechanical Force Effects on Cells and Proteins

Atlanta, GA

A new type of biomolecular tweezers could help researchers study how mechanical forces affect the biochemical activity of cells and proteins.

Garrett Stanley, an associate professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, whose lab performed the research. Credit: Georgia Institute of Technology.

Brain Circuits Multitask to Detect, Discriminate the Outside World

Atlanta, GA

A new study found that neural circuits in the brain rapidly multitask between detecting and discriminating sensory input, such as headlights in the distance.

Ten microneedle patches are shown with a ten-dose vial of influenza vaccine and ten hypodermic needles with syringes. (Georgia Tech Photo: Gary Meek)

Self-Administration of Flu Vaccine with a Patch May be Feasible, Study Suggests

Atlanta, GA

Microneedle patches may allow self-administration of influenza vaccine, a new study shows.

John McDonald, a professor in the School of Biology at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. Credit: Georgia Tech.

Personalized Medicine Best Way to Treat Cancer, Study Argues

Atlanta, GA

A new study found evidence that assessing the route to cancer on a case-by-case basis might make more sense than basing a patient’s cancer treatment on commonly disrupted genes and pathways.

A single-chip catheter-based device that would provide forward-looking, real-time, three-dimensional imaging from inside the heart, coronary arteries and peripheral blood vessels is shown on the tip of a finger. (Georgia Tech Photo: Rob Felt)

Single Chip Device to Provide Real-Time 3-D Images from Inside the Heart and Blood Vessels

Atlanta, GA

Technology has been developed for a catheter-based device that would provide forward-looking, real-time, three-dimensional imaging from inside the heart and blood vessels.

Georgia Tech's Campus Recreation Center indoor running track

Good as Gold

Atlanta, GA

Built for the 1996 Olympics, the Campus Recreation Center helps land Georgia Tech on the Fittest Colleges in America List

YongTae (Tony) Kim, an assistant professor in bioengineering in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, who led the research. 

In Vitro Innovation: Testing Nanomedicine With Blood Cells On A Microchip

Atlanta, GA

Scientists have engineered a microchip coated with blood vessel cells to learn more about the conditions under which nanoparticles accumulate in the plaque-filled arteries of patients with atherosclerosis, the underlying cause of myocardial infarctio

Raquel Lieberman, an associate professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, whose lab led the research.

Researchers Discover Potential Drug Targets for Early Onset Glaucoma

Atlanta, GA

Scientists have for the first time identified molecules with the potential to block the accumulation of a toxic eye protein that can lead to early onset of glaucoma.

This microscope image shows a cell infected with RSV. The RNA tagged by the probe is shown in red, while the nucleoprotein is green. (Image courtesy of Eric Alonas and Philip Santangelo)

Imaging Technology Could Unlock Mysteries of a Childhood Disease

Atlanta, GA

Scientists have developed a new technique for studying RSV, a common childhood illness.