Cancer Atlas Offers a Roadmap to Detecting Tumors Earlier Than Ever
Two years into a $49.5 million cancer-mapping project, researchers are opening the door to new kinds of tests that could alert doctors to multiple kinds of cancer when they’re most treatable.
Nathan Wallace Takes Steps to Advance Prosthetics
Born with a congenital limb disorder, Wallace wants to use his own experience to develop new prosthetics.
Decades in the Making: Seeing the Full Impact From Air Pollution Reductions
Georgia Tech researchers analyze seasonal differences of SO₂ and sulfate concentrations in the atmosphere over decades to determine the long-term impact of sustained air quality control efforts.
Breathtaking Breakthrough: Lung-on-a-Chip Defends Itself
Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt researchers have built the first lung-on-a-chip with a working immune system, a breakthrough with the potential to reshape how we study disease, move beyond animal testing, and administer lifesaving therapies.
Georgia Tech Startup Sets Sights on Transforming Heart Failure Care
Heart failure remains one of the most challenging conditions to monitor outside the clinic.
A Step Forward: New Smart Shoe Insert Could Improve Mobility for People With Walking Problems
The affordable wearable measures foot pressure and could improve stroke and Parkinson’s therapy.
The Doctor Is In
Microsurgeon Shao-Yun Hsu takes treating her patients all the way to Georgia Tech, where she’s getting a Ph.D. and developing biomaterials to restore function — and quality of life — for people with lymphedema.
These ‘Exploding’ Capsules Could Deliver Insulin Without a Needle
Engineers use sodium bicarb to “self-pressurize” a pill able to deliver drugs that usually require injection directly to the small intestine.
Shriners Children’s to Establish Research Institute at Science Square
Shriners Children’s will open a $153 million pediatric medical research facility at Science Square, becoming the largest tenant in the development and contributing to Georgia Tech’s growing role in Atlanta’s life sciences sector.
How New Information Triggers the Brain to Navigate Changing Environments
Biomedical engineers show how two brain regions quickly adapt to shift focus from one planned destination to another.