Bioengineering and Bioscience News | Research News Center

September 30, 2025

Nathan Wallace Takes Steps to Advance Prosthetics

3 min read

Born with a congenital limb disorder, Wallace wants to use his own experience to develop new prosthetics.

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

5 min read

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.

man baring chest an holding a patch against his skin

September 23, 2025

Georgia Tech Startup Sets Sights on Transforming Heart Failure Care

1 min read

Heart failure remains one of the most challenging conditions to monitor outside the clinic.

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

2 min read

The award recognizes outstanding scientists conducting field research that both explores the natural world and leverages collaboration.

Georgia Tech's Tech Tower with flowers blooming in the foreground

September 18, 2025

The Robotic Breakthrough That Could Help Stroke Survivors Reclaim Their Stride

5 min read

Georgia Tech's AI-fueled exoskeleton adapts to every step, helping patients relearn to walk with less effort and more confidence.

September 18, 2025

A Step Forward: New Smart Shoe Insert Could Improve Mobility for People With Walking Problems

3 min read

The affordable wearable measures foot pressure and could improve stroke and Parkinson’s therapy.

An aerial photo of the SPRUCE experiment.

September 16, 2025

Meet the Microbes: What a Warming Wetland Reveals About Earth’s Carbon Future

5 min read

A new study is unearthing how and why peatlands are producing carbon dioxide and methane.

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

6 min read

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.

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

3 min read

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.

August 21, 2025

Tiny Fans on the Feet of Water Bugs Could Lead to Energy Efficient, Mini Robots

1 min read

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

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

3 min read

This transformative addition is funded by a prestigious S10 Shared Instrumentation Grant from the National Institutes of Health.

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

4 min read

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

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

2 min read

Novel research to improve tailored assistive and rehabilitative devices wins NSF Grant

A man with tan skin and dark hair, wearing a mint-green shirt, is seated at a table and looking at the CardioTag device.

August 6, 2025

Georgia Tech Advances 500+ Technologies Toward Market for Real-World Impact

3 min read

Record-breaking numbers from the Office of Commercialization drive meaningful inventions, IP, and industry partnerships.

August 5, 2025

Stepping Into the Future: A Paralyzed Veteran Returns to Georgia Tech for His Ph.D.

6 min read

When Ignacio Montoya left Georgia Tech, he became paralyzed in a motorcycle accident. Now he’s pursuing a Ph.D. to improve life for all spinal cord injury survivors.

Brandon Dixon and Shao-Yun Hsu pose in their lab, where they're working on a project to improve lymph node transplant surgery.

July 31, 2025

The Doctor Is In

1 min read

Microsurgeon Shao-Yun Hsu takes treating her patients all the way to Georgia Tech, where she’s getting a Ph.D. and developing biomaterials to restore function — and quality of life — for people with lymphedema.

Christopher Rozell, a first-generation scholar and interdisciplinary researcher, serves as the inaugural executive director of Georgia Tech’s Institute for Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, and Society (INNS).

July 14, 2025

Rozell Named Inaugural Executive Director of New Neuroscience Institute

3 min read

Christopher Rozell to lead Georgia Tech’s new Institute for Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, and Society, uniting disciplines to tackle the brain’s greatest challenges.

July 10, 2025

Researchers Use Air-Tagged Macrophages to Transform Cancer Imaging, Diagnosis, and Treatment

1 min read

Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a new approach to cancer imaging and therapy.

Prototype of an "exploding" capsule next to a syringe. The capsule can deliver medications that are typically only effective if injected.

July 8, 2025

These ‘Exploding’ Capsules Could Deliver Insulin Without a Needle

2 min read

Engineers use sodium bicarb to “self-pressurize” a pill able to deliver drugs that usually require injection directly to the small intestine.

July 8, 2025

Jenny McGuire Named Teasley Professor

5 min read

Jenny McGuire has been named a Teasley Professor, advancing Georgia Tech’s leadership in biodiversity research and climate resilience.