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.

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.

Inside the Effort to Bring Life-Saving Cell Therapies to the Masses

This small-scale bioreactor is the model for how cell manufacturing exists on the industrial scale. (Credit: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech)
Dec 09, 2016 - Atlanta, GA
A new Georgia Tech effort aims at developing technologies for manufacturing therapeutic cells.

Buzzing the Vagus Nerve Just Right to Fight Inflammatory Disease

A vagus nerve implant with two electrodes - one to apply desired stimulation going down into the body, the other to block unwanted stimulation going up to the brain.  Georgia Tech / Rob Felt
Jan 05, 2017 - Atlanta, GA
An electric buzz to the vagus can fight chronic inflammation -- this fine-tune makes it even better.
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