Senior Moments Explained: Older Adults Have Weaker Clutter Control

Audrey Duarte, an assistant professor in the School of Psychology, uses the functional MRI scanner at the Georgia State/Georgia Tech Center for Advanced Brain Imaging to measure activity from thousands of neurons in the brain at the same time while subjects try to retrieve episodic memories. (Georgia Tech Photo: Gary Meek)
Jun 15, 2016 - Atlanta, GA
Seniors struggle with memory because of clutter, study finds

Schizophrenia Simulator: When Chemistry Upends Sanity's Balance

The schizophrenia simulator is a well-ordered, fine-tuned labyrinth of data from thousands of studies mathed with differential equations to be highly accurate. But the output to users is simple and playful -- a rainbow-colored mobile that displays the dynamics of the brain chemicals' interplay.
Aug 04, 2016 - Atlanta, GA
Working memory disturbances wreck the mental coherence of schizophrenia sufferers, yet treatments for it are very limited. Biomedical engineers have built an accurate simulator of the brain chemistry behind it to help drug developers change that.

Zika Virus in the Southeast

Sep 26, 2016 - Atlanta, GA
There have been 1,658 cases of Zika virus infection diagnosed in the US.

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.

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.

Flu Shot Clinic

Oct 20, 2016 - Health Promotion Classroom, Second Floor, Stamps Health Services
Flu shots will be administered at the clinic. Students-no charge, Faculty/Staff $25.00

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.
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