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Radiation therapy has been — and will be — a cornerstone of cancer treatment for good reason: It works.

Mostly.

Currently, more than half of cancer patients receive radiation as part of their treatment. But 20 percent of them, give or take, will find that they need different options because their tumors are resistant to radiation therapy. It’s a bad place to be: They may still face the potential side effects without the therapeutic benefit, and they’ve lost precious time.

BME's May Wang leading three of the seven projects in new initiative to improve lives of pediatric patients

The award will go towards investigating the interplay of cellular movement and metabolism in grass stomata – the microscopic breathing valves on plant leaves.

School of Biological Sciences professor Soojin Yi and her global team have uncovered new findings on the evolution of DNA methylation

School of Biological Sciences Patton Professor Greg Gibson joins Emory colleague in addressing the need for more diverse genetic risk assessments — conducting the largest genome sequencing yet for African-Americans with IBD and Crohn's disease.

Brandon Dixon's research focuses on elucidating and quantifying the molecular aspects that control lymphatic function as they respond to the dynamically changing mechanical environment they encounter in the body.

The annual symposium hosted by the Georgia Tech Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience provided a forum to celebrate the legacy of the NSF/NASA Center for Chemical Evolution, which has been headquartered at Georgia Tech for the past 10 years.

In a paper recently published in the journal BME Biology, Jordan and his collaborators work to bridge the pharmacogenomic research gap.

“Theory plus data” guides the Southeast Center for Mathematics and Biology; some of its Georgia Tech members share updates on research projects and the 3rd Annual SCMB Symposium

Mark Borodovsky and Nadia Boguslavsky are launching an Endowment for the Prize for Excellence in Bioinformatics.