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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…
From sending cancer into remission to alleviating Covid-19 symptoms, immunotherapy can provide revolutionary disease treatments.…
Professor Joel E. Kostka has been named a Union Fellow by the American Geophysical Union, joining a slate of 53 international researchers…
James T. Stroud, Elizabeth Smithgall Watts Early Career Assistant Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at Georgia Tech, has been awarded…
Biomedical engineer Annabelle Singer has spent the past decade developing a noninvasive therapy for Alzheimer’s disease that uses…
In a group of papers released May 1 in the journal Nature, scientists are one step closer to a whole-body map of the body’s cellular responses to…
James T. Stroud has been named an Early Career Fellow by the Ecological Society of America.He joins the ranks of nine newly appointed ESA Fellows and…
Student News
In July 2014, Bioinformatics faculty member, Dr. Gregory Gibson, was awarded a National Research Service Awards…
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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.