3D printed tracheal splints are shown around a model of a patient’s trachea. The splints are designed to be absorbed into the body, allowing for expansion of the trachea and bronchus. (Credit: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech)

3D-Printed Tracheal Splints Used in Groundbreaking Pediatric Surgery

Atlanta, GA

With support from Georgia Tech, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta placed 3D-printed tracheal splints in a pediatric patient.

An illustration of improved delivery of anti-cancer drugs to malignancies in the brain. On the left half, focused ultrasound agitates microbubbles, which breach the blood-brain barrier, allowing drug molecules to get through. The forces also stir interstitial fluid to circulate the drug, and they also encourage the drug to cross cell membranes more easily into tumor cells. Credit: Massachusetts General Hospital / Georgia Tech / Arvanitis / Askoxylakis

Buzzing Cancer Drugs into Malignancies in the Brain

Atlanta, GA

As a new anti-cancer drug delivery method heads into phase I clinical trials, researchers explore the tissue-level mechanisms that make it work.

Illustration for dehydration fMRI study. Free sources: Getdrawings.com and Remi Yuan on Unsplash

Dehydration Alters Human Brain Shape and Activity, Slackens Task Performance

Atlanta, GA

Visible proof that dehydration messes with the brain and cognitive performance.

  Hydrogel delivered stem cells called muscle satellite cells integrate to form new muscle strands, in green, along with existing muscle tissue, in red. Yellow strands may descend from existing muscle cells and from delivered MuSCs.

This Matrix Delivers Healing Stem Cells to Injured Elderly Muscles

Atlanta, GA

Elderly accident victims and Duchene muscular dystrophy sufferers could someday benefit from this stem cell hydrogel successfully tested in mice.

This is J. Carson Meredith, a professor in Georgia Tech's School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. (Credit: Allison Carter)

Material Formed from Crab Shells and Trees Could Replace Flexible Plastic Packaging

Atlanta, GA

STAMI Researchers have created a material derived from crab shells and tree fibers that has the potential to replace the flexible plastic packaging used to keep food fresh.

This is J. Carson Meredith, a professor in Georgia Tech's School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. (Credit: Allison Carter)

Material Formed from Crab Shells and Trees Could Replace Flexible Plastic Packaging

Atlanta, GA

Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have created a material derived from crab shells and tree fibers that has the potential to replace the flexible plastic packaging used to keep food fresh.

headshot of David Knobbe, CRC

Shaping Leaders through the Great Outdoors: Meet David Knobbe

Atlanta, GA

As the assistant director of Outdoor Recreation at the Campus Recreation Complex (CRC), David Knobbe enjoys seeing Tech students grow and find their way.

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

Atlanta, GA

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.