Cobb, Jo, Sa de Melo Honored as Lifetime AAAS Fellows

The AAAS Fellowship Rosette symbolizes the honor that AAAS bestows upon its members whose efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applications in service to society have distinguished them among their peers.
Jan 26, 2022 - Atlanta, GA
Kim M. Cobb, Hanjoong Jo, and Carlos A. R. Sa de Melo are among AAAS scientists, engineers, and innovators being recognized for scientifically and socially distinguished achievements.

A Breakthrough in the Physics of Blood Clotting

First author Yueyi Sun inside Georgia Tech’s Complex Fluids Modeling and Simulation Lab, where she compares the experimental and simulated platelet-driven fibrin clot contraction process. (Photo Credit: Alexander Alexeev, Georgia Tech) 
Jun 07, 2021 - Atlanta, GA
New research by Georgia Tech and Emory University sheds new light on the mechanics and physics of blood clotting and could lead to better ways to treat clotting and bleeding issues.

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

Aaron Blanchard and Khalid Salaita, associate professor of chemistry at Emory. 
Oct 03, 2016 - 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.

Unique Bacterial Chemist in the War on Potatoes

A bacterial warrior the only one of its kind? This enzyme is "wacko" in many ways in its breakdown of a poison related to TNT. On top of that, 5NAA-A is known so far only to exist in a single living organism on Earth. Could it be the lone master of a rare bacterial enzymatic kung fu, in the war on potatoes? Or does a genomic clue point to its existence in one other solitary case?
Oct 03, 2016 - Atlanta, GA
A bacterial warrior the only one of its kind? This enzyme is "wacko" in the ways it breaks down a poison related to TNT.

Was the Secret Spice in Primal Gene Soup a Thickener?

Gene puddle primeval, a drawing by first author Christine He to illustrate her discocery that viscosity moves DNA and RNA strands forward toward spontaneous gene strand replication. Credit: Georgia Tech / Christine He
Oct 10, 2016 - Atlanta, GA
Searching for the origins of life, researchers add thickener to the broth

Punching Cancer With RNA Knuckles

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
Nov 07, 2016 - Atlanta, GA
Eye-popping reduction of tumors achieved with help of siRNA inside targeted delivery gel.

Catching Molecular Dances in Slow Motion by Adding White Noise

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
Nov 21, 2016 - Atlanta
Counterintuitive addition of noise to AFM instrument requiring quiet boosts its performance

Secret Phenotypes: Disease Devils in Invisible Details

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
Nov 23, 2016 - Atlanta
Computers viewing tiny traits could reveal previously invisible underpinnings of horrible diseases.

Genomics Technique Could Accelerate Detection of Foodborne Bacterial Outbreaks

A microbiologist uses next-generation sequencing technology to identify a bacterial DNA fingerprint. (Credit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).
Nov 30, 2016 - Atlanta, GA
A new testing methodology could accelerate the diagnosis of foodborne bacterial outbreaks.

The Health Informatics Revolution

With support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Georgia Tech is examining death certificate data to determine what can be learned from these records. Shown are May Dongmei Wang, a professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Paula Braun, entrepreneur-in-residence at the CDC; and Mark Braunstein, M.D., a professor of the practice in Georgia Tech’s College of Computing. (Credit: Rob
Dec 09, 2016 - Atlanta
Georgia Tech is advancing health informatics in ways that will affect the future of health care.
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