How Animals Use Their Tails to Swish and Swat Away Insects
A new study shows how animals use their tails to keep mosquitoes at bay by combining a swish that blows away most of the biting bugs and a swat that kills the ones that get through.
14-Oct-2018 7:00 PM EDT
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How Communication Among Cells Affects Development of Multicellular Tissue
Using a combination of computational modeling and experimental techniques, a research team has developed new information about how intercellular communication affects the differentiation of an embryonic stem cell colony over time.
15-Oct-2018 5:05 PM EDT
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Microfluidic Molecular Exchanger Helps Control Therapeutic Cell Manufacturing
Researchers have demonstrated an integrated technique for monitoring specific biomolecules – such as growth factors – that could indicate the health of living cell cultures produced for the burgeoning field of cell-based therapeutics.
12-Oct-2018 4:05 PM EDT
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Red Glow Helps Identify Nanoparticles for Delivering RNA Therapies
A new screening process could dramatically accelerate the identification of nanoparticles suitable for delivering therapeutic RNA into living cells. The technique would allow researchers to screen hundreds of nanoparticles at a time, identifying the...
30-Sep-2018 7:05 PM EDT
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Synthetic Organelle Shows How Tiny Puddle-Organs in our Cells Work
Imagine your liver being just a big puddle. Some organelles in your cells are exactly that including prominent ones like the nucleolus. Now a synthetic organelle engineered in a lab at Georgia Tech shows how such puddle organs can carry out complex...
20-Sep-2018 4:00 PM EDT
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Looking Back in Time to Watch for a Different Kind of Black Hole
A simulation done by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology has suggested what astronomers should look for if they search the skies for a direct collapse black hole in its early stages.
18-Sep-2018 9:05 PM EDT
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Boron Nitride Separation Process Could Facilitate Higher Efficiency Solar Cells
A team of semiconductor researchers based in France has used a boron nitride separation layer to grow indium gallium nitride (InGaN) solar cells that were then lifted off their original sapphire substrate and placed onto a glass substrate.
29-Aug-2018 9:05 PM EDT
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Genomic Study of 412 Anthrax Strains Provides New Virulence Clues
By analyzing genomic sequences from more than 400 strains of the bacterium that causes anthrax, researchers have provided the first evidence that the severity – technically known as virulence – of specific strains may be related to the number...
29-Aug-2018 8:05 PM EDT
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Experts Available to Discuss Flooding, Infrastructure and Supply Logistics
15-Sep-2018 12:05 PM EDT
Brain-Like Computing Comes Closer in Big Artificial Intelligence Retina Project
The human brain's computational might in a machine, the dream of computer engineers, comes a step closer thanks to new nanomaterials. Georgia Tech researchers are creating next-gen neuron-mimmicking "memristors" to underly processing "neuristors."
28-Jul-2017 12:05 PM EDT
How Firms Big and Small Can Benefit From Strategic Alliances
An alliance between two companies isn’t automatically a “win-win,” but managers can take steps to ensure the best outcomes from strategic partnerships.
21-Nov-2016 10:05 AM EST
The Ryan Budget Plan Is Right for America, Says Georgia Tech Economist
Christine Ries, professor of economics at Georgia Tech's Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, offers her views on why Representative Paul Ryan’s budget plan is moving the debate in the right direction.
11-Apr-2011 9:05 AM EDT
Expert in Jakarta and Singapore to Discuss Bombings
Justin Hastings, assistant professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech is in Jakarta and available to discuss Friday's bomb attacks. Hasting's expertise is in terrorism, rogue states, nuclear armament and Southeast Asia.
17-Jul-2009 10:20 AM EDT
