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Georgia Tech’s James Stroud has been awarded a 2025 Maxwell/Hanrahan Award in Field Biology. Presented by the Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation,…
Molecular ‘Fossils’ Offer Microscopic Clues to the Origins of Life – But They Take Care to Interpret
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…
Between a third and half of all soil carbon on Earth is stored in peatlands, says Tom and Marie Patton Distinguished Professor Joel Kostka…
The Systems Mass Spectrometry Core (SyMS-C) at the Georgia Institute of Technology proudly announces the acquisition and installation of a cutting-…
This week, Professor Joel Kostka was awarded the prestigious Humboldt Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation…
Stephanie Prince explains her research with a scenario many Atlantans can relate to.Imagine you’re driving to the Atlanta airport to pick up a friend…
Your DNA is continually damaged by sources both inside and outside your body. One especially severe form of damage called a double-strand break…
Lynn Kamerlin, professor and Georgia Research Alliance Vasser Woolley Chair in Molecular Design in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has…
How did life originate? Ancient proteins may hold important clues. Every organism on Earth is made up of proteins. Although all organisms — even…
Imagine unlocking universal immunotherapies and cancer treatments, powerful vaccines, and a deeper understanding of our own immune systems. Georgia…
The measles outbreak that began in west Texas in late January 2025 continues to grow, with 400 confirmed cases in Texas and more than 50 in New…
Georgia Tech scientists are revealing how decades-long research programs have transformed our understanding of evolution, from laboratory petri…
The Final SCMB Symposium is being held on April 10th – 11th, 2025 on Georgia Tech campus. Come see how we connect Mathematical Theory and Biological…
Four million Americans suffer from glaucoma, an incurable eye disease that slowly degrades peripheral vision and eventually leads to blindness.…
In psychology and neuroscience research, a host of behaviors fall under the cognitive umbrella: learning, perceiving the environment, storing…
When Kostas Konstantinidis proved that many microbes — like plants and animals — are organized into species, he upended a long-held scientific belief…
From combating cancer and infections to storing energy, lipid-protein interactions are critical to biological processes in cells. But the mechanisms…
In South Florida, two Caribbean lizard species met for the first time. What followed provided some of the clearest evidence to date of evolution in…
Kristine Lacek vividly remembers watching news coverage of the West Africa Ebola outbreak while she was in high school. Inspired by the brave…
A multi-institutional team of researchers, led by Georgia Tech’s Francesca Storici, has discovered a previously unknown role for RNA. Their insights…
Student News
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.