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

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

Under high magnification, this digitally-colorized scanning electron microscope image depicts endospores from Bacillus anthracis bacteria. These endospores can live for many years, which enables these bacteria to survive in a dormant state. (CDC image)

Genomic Study of 412 Anthrax Strains Provides New Virulence Clues

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Georgia Tech and CDC researchers have provided new information about the factors affecting the virulence of anthrax.

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

Dehydration Alters Human Brain Shape and Activity, Slackens Task Performance

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

To understand their strategies for working effectively without clogging traffic jams, researchers studied how fire ants dug tunnels in glass particles that simulated soil. (Credit: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech)

More Workers Working Might Not Get More Work Done, Ants (and Robots) Show

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A new study shows that ants have a lot to teach robots about working in confined spaces.

  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

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

Georgia Tech will begin offering an online master of science degree in cybersecurity beginning in January 2019.

Georgia Tech Creates Cybersecurity Master’s Degree Online for Less Than $10,000

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New online master's in cybersecurity will cost less than $10,000.

Researchers Will Ratcliff (left) and Peter Yunker at Highland Bakery.

Coffee Leads to Collaboration

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Meetings over coffee led two professors to collaborate on research.

With support from the National Science Foundation, Georgia Tech researchers are studying Spirostomum ambiguum, a tiny single-celled protozoan that achieves blazing-fast acceleration while contracting its worm-like body. (Credit: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech)

World’s Fastest Creature May Also be One of the Smallest

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Researchers are studying a tiny single-celled protozoan that achieves blazing-fast acceleration while contracting its worm-like body.

A proof-of-concept flow sensor is shown here on a stent backbone. (Credit: John Toon, Georgia Tech)

Integrated Sensor Could Monitor Brain Aneurysm Treatment

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A proof-of-concept sensor could help with monitoring treatment of brain aneurysms.

Corallivorous gastropod (Coralliophila violacea) feeding on a Porites cylindrica coral. (Credit: Cody Clements, Georgia Tech)

Previously Overlooked “Coral Ticks” Weaken Degraded Reefs

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A previously overlooked predator could be increasing the pressure on endangered coral reefs.