Engineering Professor Hang Lu holds up a chip used to immobilize C. elegans roundworms for photographing by a microscope optic connected to a computer. The chip then sorts the worms into one of two channels for either mutants or non-mutants, a status an algorythm determines based on subtle phenotypical differences it recognizes in the microscope photo. Credit: Georgia Tech / Rob Felt

Secret Phenotypes: Disease Devils in Invisible Details

Atlanta

Computers viewing tiny traits could reveal previously invisible underpinnings of horrible diseases.

An atomic force microscope allows scientists to observe molecular interactions important to understanding life processes. Georgia Tech mechanical engineers focusing on biotechnology recently significantly improved AFM's sensitivity by adding electronic white noise. Credit: Georgia Tech /  Rob Felt

Catching Molecular Dances in Slow Motion by Adding White Noise

Atlanta

Counterintuitive addition of noise to AFM instrument requiring quiet boosts its performance

Researcher Roman Mezencev holds a sample of nanohydrogel developed for targeted delivery of siRNA to cancer cells and successfully tested in vivo in mice in John McDonald's Georgia Tech lab. Credit: Georgia Tech / Micah Eavenson / Adam Karcz

Punching Cancer With RNA Knuckles

Atlanta, GA

Eye-popping reduction of tumors achieved with help of siRNA inside targeted delivery gel.

Flu Shot Clinic

Health Promotion Classroom, Second Floor, Stamps Health Services

Flu shots will be administered at the clinic. Students-no charge, Faculty/Staff $25.00

Startup Launch - Deadline Announcement!

Atlanta, GA

Startup Launch (formerly known as Startup Summer) is looking for the next great ideas from Tech students for its 2017 program.

Aaron Blanchard and Khalid Salaita, associate professor of chemistry at Emory. 

Collegiate Inventors Competition Selects Georgia Tech/Emory Team as 2016 finalists

Atlanta, GA

The Collegiate Inventors Competition has selected a team of two Georgia Tech and Emory graduate students as finalists in its 2016 annual competition.

Zika Virus in the Southeast

Atlanta, GA

There have been 1,658 cases of Zika virus infection diagnosed in the US.

The schizophrenia simulator is a well-ordered, fine-tuned labyrinth of data from thousands of studies mathed with differential equations to be highly accurate. But the output to users is simple and playful -- a rainbow-colored mobile that displays the dynamics of the brain chemicals' interplay.

Schizophrenia Simulator: When Chemistry Upends Sanity's Balance

Atlanta, GA

Working memory disturbances wreck the mental coherence of schizophrenia sufferers, yet treatments for it are very limited. Biomedical engineers have built an accurate simulator of the brain chemistry behind it to help drug developers change that.

Audrey Duarte, an assistant professor in the School of Psychology, uses the functional MRI scanner at the Georgia State/Georgia Tech Center for Advanced Brain Imaging to measure activity from thousands of neurons in the brain at the same time while subjects try to retrieve episodic memories. (Georgia Tech Photo: Gary Meek)

Senior Moments Explained: Older Adults Have Weaker Clutter Control

Atlanta, GA

Seniors struggle with memory because of clutter, study finds

Image shows adult human fibroblast cells with intracellular proteins involved in adhesion of these cells to an extracellular matrix. Magenta represents actin stress fibers in a cell and green staining represents a focal adhesion protein vinculin, which together contribute to how strongly these cells adhere to a matrix surface. Blue is the nucleus of a cell. These fibroblasts are converted to human induced pluripotent stem cells through a reprogramming process during which restructuring of the adhesion prote

Roadmap for Advanced Cell Manufacturing Shows Path to Cell-Based Therapeutics

Atlanta, GA

An industry-driven consortium has developed a national roadmap designed to chart the path to large-scale manufacturing of cell-based therapeutics.