Addressing Environmental Challenges with Big Data and Artificial Intelligence

Images from the Encyclopedia of Life. Photo credits: Robertpollai, CC-BY; A. Fifis/Ifremer, CC-BY-NC; Kevin Raskoff & MPC, CC-BY-NC-SA; Sean McCann, CC-BY-NC-SA; Nick Hobgood, CC-BY-NC  
Sep 28, 2016 - Atlanta, GA
NSF funding to link technologies from Georgia Tech, Smithsonian and IBM to study environment.

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.

Startup Launch - Deadline Announcement!

Oct 03, 2016 - Atlanta, GA
Startup Launch (formerly known as Startup Summer) is looking for the next great ideas from Tech students for its 2017 program.

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

Learning Morse Code without Trying

Oct 27, 2016 - Atlanta, GA
Researchers have developed a system that teaches people Morse code within four hours using a series of vibrations felt near the ear

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.

Hybrid Approach Predicts and Confirms Structure of Complex Metal Nanoparticles

The de novo-predicted and X-ray-confirmed structure of the organic thiol-capped AuAg16(SR)12 cluster. The cluster is comprised of a central icosahedral (AuAg12, made of a gold atom surrounded by twelve silver atoms), capped by four AgS3 mounts, each made of a triangle of sulfur atoms, in yellow, bonded to an anchoring silver atom (black). Each of the twelve sulfur atoms is bonded to an aromatic phenyl ring which is crowned by a tetrabutyl group C(CH3)3. Most of the aromatic rings are organized in dimer bund
Nov 28, 2016 - Atlanta, GA
Combining experimental and theoretical methods accurately describes complex nanoparticle
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