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Ribonucleotides, units of RNA that can become rooted in DNA during processes such as replication and repair, generally are associated with genomic…
Over four years and two degrees as a student at Georgia Tech, Kristine Lacek has seen many sides of research. As a recent graduate who now holds a…
Pamela Peralta-Yahya to Collaborate with Caroline Genzale on NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Award
This story initially appeared on the website of the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. Content has been modified for the College of…
While attention remains focused on the number of COVID-19 deaths and new cases, a separate statistic – the number of recovered patients – may be…
Gaps in the supply of coronavirus tests are propelling initiatives to fill them across the country. At the Georgia Institute of Technology,…
April 20, 2010: The Gulf of Mexico becomes an ecological disaster zone.An explosion on the Deepwater Horizon marine oil platform leased by British…
The European conquest and colonization of the Americas in the age of Christopher Columbus was a tragic and bloody enterprise that enslaved millions…
A new study by researchers in the School of Biological Sciences raises new questions about a decades-old, award-winning theory regarding how many…
Three Petit Institute researchers – Lily Cheung, Michael Goodisman, and Matt Torres – have been awarded the 2020 Petit Institute Seed Grants for Core…
By A. Maureen RouhiExamine your hands. The right is a mirror image of the left. They look very similar, but you know they’re not when you try to put…
Editor's Note: This story by Victor Rogers was published first on Nov. 20, 2019, in the Georgia Tech News Center. It was slightly modified for the…
Editor's Note: This story by Jerry Grillo was originally published on Nov. 14, 2019, by the Parker H. Petit Institute of Bioscience and…
Using advanced metagenomics techniques, researchers have found that conventional culture-based lab tests may misdiagnose as many as half of the…
Can a pint of Pilsner increase your urgency to poop?Scientists at Georgia Tech have identified three antimicrobial agents—including hordenine, a…
When the National Science Foundation and the Simons Foundation launched the Research Centers for Mathematics of Complex Biological Systems (…
The National Institutes of Health know a good investment when they see one, and they definitely see one in Joe Lachance, researcher in the Petit…
Corals create potions that fight bacterial attackers, but warming appears to tip the scales against the potions as they battle a bacterium common in…
If your ancestry in the United States stretches back more than 250 years, you may have Native American forbears. A new population genetics study…
Congratulations to Joshua Lewis (Ph.D.), George Gruenhagen (M.S.), and Prerna Jain (M.S.) who were recognized as the 2019 Outstanding Students in…
An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Institut Pasteur has received a $2.5 million National…
Student News
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Thesis Advisor:
Dr. Mark Borodovsky
(Schools of Biomedical Engineering and Computational Science…
Juan Gallo, a visiting doctoral student from Colombia, was selected as one of the 10 winners of MIT Technological Reviews…
5/05/2015
Bioinformatics PhD Student Shiyuyun (Gena) Tang was selected for a $1500 travel award at the Georgia Tech Career, Research,…
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are often dysregulated in ovarian cancer. These short non-coding RNA sequences regulate gene expression…
2/02/2015
Gene-fusions are a prevalent class of genetic variants that are often employed as cancer biomarkers and therapeutic targets…
Bioinformatics doctoral student Shiyuyun"Gena" Tang won Best Poster Award at the 2014 ACM Conference on Bioinformatics,…
In July 2014, Bioinformatics faculty member, Dr. Gregory Gibson, was awarded a National Research Service Awards…
8/08/2014
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) causes 45% of on-duty firefighter fatalities, a high fraction even when compared to the risk of…
U.S. and Chinese researchers have designed a multiple-compartment gel capsule that could simultaneously deliver drugs of different types.