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Ravi Bellamkonda Named Biomedical Engineering Chair
Bellamkonda to serve as chair of Georgia Tech & Emory's joint biomedical engineering department
Model Finds Common Muscle Control Patterns Governing the Motion of Swimming Animals
A new study shows that swimming animals use similar timing patterns to contract their muscles
NIH Director Visits Georgia Research Community
Timely visit on heels of learning the specifics on how the sequestration will impact the NIH
Eric Gaucher Receives Young Professor Award from DuPont
Eric Gaucher, associate professor in Georgia Tech's School of Biology, was named as one of 14 young faculty from seven nations to receive an early career grant by DuPont.
Emory, Georgia Tech receive first human exposome center grant in U.S.
– Investigators at Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, along with partners at the Georgia Institute of Technology, have received a $4 million grant over four years to establish the HERCULES Center at Emory University.
Soft Matter Offers Ways to Study Arrangement of Ordered Materials in Non-spherical Spaces
A fried breakfast food helped inspire development of doughnut-shaped droplets that may lead to new fundamental studies.
Principles of Ant Locomotion Could Help Future Robot Teams Work Underground
Future teams of subterranean robots could benefit from research into how ants move in confined spaces.
Grand Challenges Grant Supports Tissue Engineered Model of Lymphatic System
Georgia Tech has won a Grand Challenges Exploration grant to support development of a lymphatic system on a chip.
Study Suggests Drug Side Effects Inevitable; Basic Physics Enabled Early Biochemistry
A study of computer-created and natural proteins suggests that drug side effects may be impossible to avoid.
RNA Was Capable of Catalyzing Electron Transfer on Early Earth with Iron’s Help, Study Shows
Complex biochemical transformations may have been possible under conditions that existed when life began on the early Earth.