Georgia Institute of Technology, Author Profile

Synthetic Organelle Shows How Tiny Puddle-Organs in Our Cells Work

September 21, 2018

Lab model of membraneless organelle makes sugar metabolism reactions cascade

Dehydration Alters Human Brain Shape and Activity, Slackens Task Performance

August 24, 2018

When dehydration strikes, part of the brain can swell, neural signaling can intensify, and doing monotonous tasks can get har...

Material Formed from Crab Shells and Trees Could Replace Flexible Plastic Packaging

July 23, 2018

Researchers have created a material derived from crab shells and tree fibers that has the potential to replace the flexible p...

As We Get Parched, Cognition Can Easily Sputter, Dehydration Study Says

July 18, 2018

Anyone lost in a desert hallucinating mirages knows that extreme dehydration discombobulates the mind

Making the Oxygen We Breathe, a Photosynthesis Mechanism Exposed

June 12, 2018

Arguably, the greatest fueler of life on our planet is photosynthesis, but understanding its labyrinthine chemistry, powered ...

Aircraft Microbiome Much like That of Homes and Offices, Study Finds

June 8, 2018

Using advanced sequencing technology, researchers studied the bacteria found on three components of an airliner cabin

Comparison Shows Value of DNA Barcoding in Selecting Nanoparticles

March 6, 2018

A new study demonstrated the advantages of an in vivo DNA barcoding technique, which attaches small snippets o...

Want to Beat Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs? Rethink That Strep Throat Remedy

January 2, 2018

It's time to develop alternatives to antibiotics for small infections and to do so quickly

Gecko Adhesion Technology Moves Closer To Industrial Uses

December 15, 2017

A Georgia Institute of Technology researcher is looking into how the technology could be applied in a high-precision industri...

Spray-on Electric Rainbows: Making Safer Electrochromic Inks

August 18, 2017

Georgia Tech researchers have developed electrochromic film inks that are water-based

Surprising Twist in Confined Liquid Crystals: A Simple Route to Developing New Sensors

March 28, 2017

"We were seeking to understand the aggregation and phase behavior of these plank-like molecules as a function of temperature ...

Roadmap for Advanced Cell Manufacturing Shows Path to Cell-Based Therapeutics

June 14, 2016

Over the past decade, new and emerging cell-based medical technologies have been developed to manage and possibly cure many c...

People in Food Deserts Eat Much Differently than the Rest of America

February 29, 2016

Social media reveals nutritional choices of people with fewer fresh food options

Looking Back 3.8 Billion Years into the Root of the “Tree of Life”

December 1, 2015

Some of the keys to unlocking the origin of life lie encrypted in the ribosome, life’s oldest and most universal assemb...

Entering the Strange World of Ultra-Cold Chemistry

November 4, 2015

New funding will allow scientists to explore the formation of novel types of molecular aggregates at extreme conditions...