Yurt-like test chambers in a natural boreal spruce bog in northern Minnesota (provided).
October 23, 2025
Peatlands’ ‘Huge Reservoir’ of Carbon at Risk of Release
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Researchers analyzed data from 10, yurt-like test chambers in a natural boreal spruce bog in northern Minnesota.
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Illustration of cancer cells along a road with location markers next to each cell to represent the cancer "atlas" Gabe Kwong and his collaborators are building.
October 16, 2025
Cancer Atlas Offers a Roadmap to Detecting Tumors Earlier Than Ever
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Two years into a $49.5 million cancer-mapping project, researchers are opening the door to new kinds of tests that could alert doctors to multiple kinds of cancer when they’re most treatable.
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A lizard wearing one of the sensors, which weigh just three-hundredths of a gram each — the same as a two grains of rice. (Credit: Jon Suh)
October 15, 2025
Mapping Evolution: James Stroud Named 2025 Packard Fellow
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The award will support Stroud as he creates evolution’s first high-definition map — with the help of 1,000 backpack-wearing lizards.
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A person seated in a beige chair using a computer setup with multiple cables and devices, facing a large monitor in a testing or research room, with another individual visible through a window in an adjacent control room.
October 15, 2025
Head to Toe: Georgia Tech Researchers Treat the Entire Human Body Through Neuroscience Research
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Meet Georgia Tech’s neurology experts exploring the brain’s impact on the entire body.
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A brown basilisk missing both its entire left forearm and part of its right hind limb. Brian Hillen
October 13, 2025
3-Legged Lizards Can Thrive Against All Odds, Challenging Assumptions About How Evolution Works in the Wild
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Research uncovered 122 cases of limb loss across 58 lizard species and revealed that these “three-legged pirates” – the rare survivors of traumatic injuries – can run just as fast, maintain healthy body weight, reproduce successfully and live surprisingly
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Grace Tang (Left) and Alison Onstine (Right) holding bacteria plates that spell "BIOL 4590" (Credit: Tang and Onstine)
October 13, 2025
Undergraduate Bioinformatics Class Produces Published Research
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“This course truly underscores Georgia Tech’s commitment to pioneering meaningful undergraduate experiences,” says teacher Vinayak (Vinny) Agarwal. “No other peer institution I know of is exposing undergraduates to bioinformatics at this level.”
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Mark Styczynski in lab
October 7, 2025
ChBE Professor Leads Team Awarded $9.2M NSF Grant to Build “Plug-and-Play” Biotechnology
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Researchers received a $9.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to accelerate the adoption of cell-free systems in biomanufacturing.
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Nathan Wallace in the lab
September 30, 2025
Nathan Wallace Takes Steps to Advance Prosthetics
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Born with a congenital limb disorder, Wallace wants to use his own experience to develop new prosthetics.
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Researchers show off a lung-on-a-chip that has an immune system. Long term, this technology could lead to highly personalized medicine
September 24, 2025
Breathtaking Breakthrough: Lung-on-a-Chip Defends Itself
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Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt researchers have built the first lung-on-a-chip with a working immune system, a breakthrough with the potential to reshape how we study disease, move beyond animal testing, and administer lifesaving therapies.
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man baring chest an holding a patch against his skin
September 23, 2025
Georgia Tech Startup Sets Sights on Transforming Heart Failure Care
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Heart failure remains one of the most challenging conditions to monitor outside the clinic.
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James Stroud examines a lizard in the field. (Credit: Day’s Edge Productions)
September 22, 2025
James Stroud Receives Maxwell/Hanrahan Award in Field Biology
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The award recognizes outstanding scientists conducting field research that both explores the natural world and leverages collaboration.
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September 18, 2025
The Robotic Breakthrough That Could Help Stroke Survivors Reclaim Their Stride
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Georgia Tech's AI-fueled exoskeleton adapts to every step, helping patients relearn to walk with less effort and more confidence.
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Hong Yeo holds shoe insert.
September 18, 2025
A Step Forward: New Smart Shoe Insert Could Improve Mobility for People With Walking Problems
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The affordable wearable measures foot pressure and could improve stroke and Parkinson’s therapy.
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ATP synthase is an enzyme that has been using phosphate to generate life’s energy for millions of years.
September 16, 2025
Molecular ‘Fossils’ Offer Microscopic Clues to the Origins of Life – But They Take Care to Interpret
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The questions of how humankind came to be, and whether we are alone in the universe, have captured imaginations for millennia. But to answer these questions, scientists must first understand life itself and how it could have arisen.
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An aerial photo of the SPRUCE experiment.
September 16, 2025
Meet the Microbes: What a Warming Wetland Reveals About Earth’s Carbon Future
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A new study is unearthing how and why peatlands are producing carbon dioxide and methane. 
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The seed grants will fund projects focused on enhancing wheelchair seating surfaces, supporting stroke patients as they transition home from rehabilitation, assessing lower limb exoskeleton technologies, and exploring the use of AI in remote rehab settings. Photo: Shepherd Center.
August 21, 2025
Georgia Tech, Shepherd Center Award Inaugural Seed Grants
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Grants include projects on improving seating surfaces for wheelchair users, easing the transition home after stroke rehabilitation, evaluating lower limb exoskeletons, and using AI in remote rehabilitation.
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Researchers Rakesh Singh (L) and Ludyanna Lebon with the timsTOF HT and nanoElute2 systems
August 21, 2025
New NIH-Funded timsTOF HT Mass Spectrometer Boosts Proteomics Power in Georgia Tech IBB Core Facilities
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This transformative addition is funded by a prestigious S10 Shared Instrumentation Grant from the National Institutes of Health.
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a water bug standing on water
August 21, 2025
Tiny Fans on the Feet of Water Bugs Could Lead to Energy Efficient, Mini Robots
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A new study explains how tiny water bugs use fan-like propellers to zip across streams at speeds up to 120 body lengths per second
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Adam-MacCallum,Jim Pope Fellow and translational research advocate in Georgia Tech’s Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, sits pensively, looking out.
August 15, 2025
Jim Pope Fellow to Offer New Course on Biotechnology Commercialization this Fall
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Adam McCallum, a Jim Pope Fellow at Georgia Tech, is advancing entrepreneurial education in biomedical engineering by mentoring students, launching a new commercialization course, and supporting innovations that address neurological diseases t
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Graphic of person using an assistive device thinking about how a robot could hep learn riding a unicycle
August 8, 2025
Research Combining Humans, Robots, and Unicycles Receives NSF Award
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Novel research to improve tailored assistive and rehabilitative devices wins NSF Grant
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