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Study Suggests Drug Side Effects Inevitable; Basic Physics Enabled Early Biochemistry

May 20, 2013 — A new study of both computer-created and natural proteins suggests that the number of unique pockets – sites where small molecule pharmaceutical compounds can bind to proteins – is surprisingly small, meaning drug side effects may be impossible to avoid. The study also found that the fundamental biochemical processes needed for life could have been enabled by the simple physics of protein folding.

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Principles of Ant Locomotion Could Help Future Robot Teams Work Underground

May 20, 2013 — Future teams of subterranean search and rescue robots may owe their success to the lowly fire ant, a much despised insect whose painful bites and extensive networks of underground tunnels are all-too-familiar to people living in the southern United States.

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Soft Matter Offers Ways to Study Arrangement of Ordered Materials in Non-spherical Spaces

May 20, 2013 — A fried breakfast food popular in Spain provided the inspiration for the development of doughnut-shaped droplets that may provide scientists with a new approach for studying fundamental issues in physics, mathematics and materials.

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Grand Challenges Grant Supports Tissue Engineered Model of Lymphatic System

May 20, 2013 — Georgia Tech has won a Grand Challenges Explorations Grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. J. Brandon Dixon, assistant professor in Georgia Tech’s George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, will pursue an innovative global health and development research project, titled “Lymphatic on a chip as a model for lymphatic filariasis (LF) parasites.”

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RNA Was Capable of Catalyzing Electron Transfer on Early Earth with Iron’s Help, Study Shows

May 19, 2013 — A new study shows how complex biochemical transformations may have been possible under conditions that existed when life began on the early Earth. The study shows that RNA is capable of catalyzing electron transfer under conditions similar to those of the early Earth.

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Trees Used to Create Recyclable, Efficient Solar Cell

March 25, 2013 — Georgia Institute of Technology and Purdue University researchers have developed efficient solar cells using natural substrates derived from plants such as trees. Just as importantly, by fabricating them on cellulose nanocrystal (CNC) substrates, the solar cells can be quickly recycled in water at the end of their lifecycle.

"Terradynamics" Could Help Designers Predict How Legged Robots Will Move on Granular Media

March 21, 2013 — Using a combination of theory and experiment, researchers have developed a new approach for understanding and predicting how small legged robots – and potentially also animals – move on and interact with complex granular materials such as sand.

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Robots to Spur Economy, Improve Quality of Life, Keep Responders Safe

March 20, 2013 — Robots are being used more widely than expected in a variety of sectors, and the trend is likely to continue with robotics becoming as ubiquitous as computer technology over the next 15 years, according to the new report.

Joel Sokol Makes NCAA Tournament Predictions

Georgia Tech Computer System Predicts NCAA Basketball Champion

March 20, 2013 — When Georgia Tech opens the doors to the Georgia Dome next month as the host institution for the 2013 Final Four, expect third-seeded Florida to walk out as the national champion. That’s the prediction from Georgia Tech’s Logistic Regression/Markov Chain (LRMC) college basketball ranking system, a computerized model that has chosen the men’s basketball national champ in three of the last five years.

Collaborative Health Information Technology Program Launches

March 20, 2013 — Classes got underway March 4 at Gwinnett Tech in Lawrenceville for the newly-launched Health Information Technology (HIT) certificate program, a part of the HIT education partnership between the Georgia Institute of Technology and Gwinnett Technical College.

Mechanical Forces Control Assembly and Disassembly of a Key Cell Protein

March 20, 2013 — Researchers have for the first time demonstrated that mechanical forces can control the depolymerization of actin, a critical protein that provides the major force-bearing structure in the cytoskeletons of cells. The research suggests that forces applied both externally and internally may play a much larger role than previously believed in regulating a range of processes inside cells.

Improved Hearing Anticipated for Implant Recipients

March 18, 2013 — A team of researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology has developed a new type of interface between cochlear implant devices and the brain that could dramatically improve the sound quality of the next generation of implants. Cochlear implants help deaf individuals perceive sound.

Azad Naeemi Wins NSF CAREER Award

March 18, 2013 — ECE Assistant Professor Azad Naeemi has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his research project entitled "Physical Models and Experimental Validation for High-Frequency Multilayer Graphene Interconnects."

Startup Launched from Georgia Tech-Emory University Research Receives $7.9 Million

March 18, 2013 — Clearside Biomedical, Inc. an Atlanta-based ophthalmic pharmaceutical company launched from research at Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology, has received $7.9 million in funding to continue drug and technology development for treatment of ocular diseases.

GoNow Bladder Technology Wins Business Plan Competition

March 12, 2013 — Technology that could help spinal-cord injury sufferers control their bladder by remote control won first place ($10,000) in the 2013 Georgia Tech Business Plan Competition.

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