Johnna Temenoff, an associate professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, has been awarded a $1 million grant to develop an injectable therapy for rotator cuff injuries. Credit: Rob Felt.

Scientists Work to Engineer an Injectable Therapy for Rotator Cuff Injuries

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Researchers are attempting to engineer an injectable therapy for the shoulder’s supraspinatus tendon, a rotator cuff tendon that is commonly torn in sports.

Brad Fain, a Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) principal research scientist, has assisted Pfizer in developing an easy to open bottle for people with arthritis. (Georgia Tech Photo: Rob Felt)

Researchers Help Design Easy-to-Open, Child-Resistant Medicine Bottle

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Georgia Tech researchers have helped design an easy-to-open medicine bottle for a Pfizer medication.

Charlie Kemp, director of the Healthcare Robotics Lab, is working with Henry Evans, who lives with quadriplegia. As part of the Robots for Humanity project Evans briefly used a robot to shave. Evans is at his home using the robot.

Georgia Tech researchers study aging with disabilities

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Georgia Tech has received a five-year $4.6 million grant to increase understanding of the aging process for people with disabilities and use data gleaned from the study to develop technologies that will benefit them and others.

Todd Sulchek, an assistant professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech, specializes in studying the mechanical properties of cells. Credit: Maxwell Guberman.

New Technology That Sorts Cells by Stiffness May Help Spot Disease

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Researchers have developed a new technology to sort human cells according to their stiffness, which might one day help doctors identify certain diseases in patients, according to a new study.

This graphic shows two conformations of BamA (gold) against a lipid bilayer background. The left side shows the crystallized form of BamA, almost completely closed, while the right shows a laterally open state revealed by the simulations. The red color denotes the interior of the barrel. (Courtesy of J.C. Gumbart)

Researchers Determine Protein Structure for New Antimicrobial Target

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A study of protein membranes could provide drug designers with a new target for anti-microbial compounds.