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Study Suggests Drug Side Effects Inevitable; Basic Physics Enabled Early Biochemistry

May 20, 2013 — A new study of both computer-created and natural proteins suggests that the number of unique pockets – sites where small molecule pharmaceutical compounds can bind to proteins – is surprisingly small, meaning drug side effects may be impossible to avoid. The study also found that the fundamental biochemical processes needed for life could have been enabled by the simple physics of protein folding.

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Principles of Ant Locomotion Could Help Future Robot Teams Work Underground

May 20, 2013 — Future teams of subterranean search and rescue robots may owe their success to the lowly fire ant, a much despised insect whose painful bites and extensive networks of underground tunnels are all-too-familiar to people living in the southern United States.

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Soft Matter Offers Ways to Study Arrangement of Ordered Materials in Non-spherical Spaces

May 20, 2013 — A fried breakfast food popular in Spain provided the inspiration for the development of doughnut-shaped droplets that may provide scientists with a new approach for studying fundamental issues in physics, mathematics and materials.

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RNA Was Capable of Catalyzing Electron Transfer on Early Earth with Iron’s Help, Study Shows

May 19, 2013 — A new study shows how complex biochemical transformations may have been possible under conditions that existed when life began on the early Earth. The study shows that RNA is capable of catalyzing electron transfer under conditions similar to those of the early Earth.

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Biomaterial Shows Promise for Type 1 Diabetes Treatment

May 8, 2013 — Researchers have made a significant first step with newly engineered biomaterials for cell transplantation that could help lead to a possible cure for Type 1 diabetes, which affects about 3 million Americans.

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Georgia Manufacturing Survey Shows More Firms Benefitting from In-Sourcing

October 16, 2012 — The 2012 Georgia Manufacturing Survey provides some welcome good news for Georgia companies. For the first time since researchers began tracking the statistic, more Georgia manufacturers have been benefitting from in-sourcing – production work coming to them from outside the state – than have been losing work to other states and countries.

Georgia Tech Cycling App to Assist City of Atlanta

October 12, 2012 — Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed joined President G.P. “Bud” Peterson in announcing several citywide cycling initiatives, including Cycle Atlanta, a smartphone app that tracks routes and is designed to help the city with future cycling decisions.

iPad App Helps Students Understand How Conditions Affect Blackbody Radiation

October 11, 2012 — Understanding the phenomenon of blackbody radiation – electromagnetic emissions that play a role in a broad range of physical systems – is an important part of physics instruction at both the high school and college levels. Thanks to researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), explaining this to students just became a little easier.

Robots Using Tools: With New Grant, Researchers Aim to Create ‘MacGyver’ Robot

October 9, 2012 — A Georgia Tech research team has received a grant from the Office of Naval Research to work on a project that intends to teach robots how to use objects in their environment to accomplish high-level tasks.

Georgia Tech, MIT and Allen Institute for Brain Science Receive $4.3 Million NIH Grant

October 9, 2012 — An interdisciplinary team from the Georgia Tech, MIT and the Allen Institute for Brain Science was awarded a $4.3 million National Institutes of Health grant.

Squeezing Ovarian Cancer Cells to Predict Metastatic Potential

October 5, 2012 — New Georgia Tech research shows that cell stiffness could be a valuable clue for doctors as they search for and treat cancerous cells before they’re able to spread. The findings, which are published in the journal PLoS One, found that highly metastatic ovarian cancer cells are several times softer than less metastatic ovarian cancer cells.

Home-Based Assessment Tool for Dementia Screening

October 2, 2012 — With baby boomers approaching the age of 65 and new cases of Alzheimer’s disease expected to increase by 50 percent by the year 2030, Georgia Tech researchers have created a tool that allows adults to screen themselves for early signs of dementia. The home-based computer software is patterned after the paper-and-pencil Clock Drawing Test, one of health care’s most commonly used screening exams for cognitive impairment.

Study Suggests Immune System Can Boost Regeneration of Peripheral Nerves

October 2, 2012 — Modulating immune response to injury could accelerate the regeneration of severed peripheral nerves, a new study in an animal model has found. By altering activity of the macrophage cells that respond to injuries, researchers dramatically increased the rate at which nerve processes regrew.

Georgia Tech Awarded $6 Million to Improve Safety of Nuclear Reactors

October 1, 2012 — The Georgia Institute of Technology has won a $6 million federal grant to design improvements that strengthen the performance and safety of nuclear systems beyond today’s capabilities.

Eliminating Visual Clutter Helps People with Mild Cognitive Impairment

October 1, 2012 — A new study from Georgia Tech and the University of Toronto suggests that memory impairments for people diagnosed with early stage Alzheimer’s disease may be due, in part, to problems in determining the differences between similar objects. The findings also support growing research indicating that a part of the brain once believed to support memory exclusively – the medial temporal lobe - also plays a role in object perception.

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