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Robotic Cleaning Technique Could Automate Neuroscience Research

For scientists listening in on the faint whispers of brain neurons, a first-ever robotic technique for cleaning the tiny devices that record the signals could facilitate a new level of automation in neuroscience research.

APDC Picks Best of the Best

Six innovative pediatric medical device projects selected for seed grant awards

Book by Joshua Weitz on Quantitative Viral Ecology Wins Award

Royal Society of Biology judged monograph as best postgraduate textbook in 2016

BME Mentor Families Pay it Forward

Learning Commons program helping students navigate the challenges of higher education

New Brainpower on the Job

Five more researchers join multidisciplinary team at Petit Institute

Freeing a Scientific Mind to Envision Big Research: Packard Fellowship to Will Ratcliff

Funding can focus science on the long game; just ask Will Ratcliff, freshly named a Packard Fellow.

Strength Tests for Platelets

Bleeding disorders could one day be diagnosed by putting platelets through strength tests

Was the Secret Spice in Primal Gene Soup a Thickener?

Searching for the origins of life, researchers add thickener to the broth

Atlanta Business Chronicle Honors Manu Platt with 40 Under 40 Award

Award recognizes his significant career achievements and social responsibility

Gabe Kwong Receives $1.5M NIH Director’s New Innovator Award

NIH announces funding for 88 awards on high-impact biomedical research

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Hope for Cancer Patients
Fox 5 Medical Team: McDonald research could be game changer in the battle against ovarian cancer.
http://www.fox5atlanta.com/health/fox-medical-team/56262746-story
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Digging Deep into the Past
Petit Institute researcher Loren Williams leading NASA-funded effort to find the root of life.
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Looking_back_3_8_billion_years_into_the_root_of_the_Tree_of_Life_999.html
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Mapping Four Billion Years of Evolution
Georgia Tech researchers funded by NASA’s Astrobiology Institute retrace the development of the ribosome back almost four billion years.
http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-map-four-billion-years-ribosomal-evolution
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Tracing Life's Evolution
NASA-funded researchers are tapping information in the cells of all life and using it to trace evolution.
https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/articles/2015/11/30/looking-back-38-billion-years-into-the-root-of-the-tree-of-life/
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Cleaning to Survive
Georgia Tech research could lead to new self-cleaning technologies for solar panels and remote camera sensors.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article47027745.html
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An Obsession With Keeping Clean
L.A. Times: Georgia Tech researchers examine the dangers of getting dirty in the natural world.
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-animal-cleaning-strategies-20151118-story.html
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Attacking the 'Silent Killer'
Tech collaborates with Ovarian Cancer Institute on procedure for early detection.
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/biospace/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20151117006882&newsLang=en
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Blood Test for Ovarian Cancer
Georgia Tech researchers close to developing super accurate screening test for ovarian cancer.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/12002450/Blood-test-detects-ovarian-cancer-in-nine-out-of-10-patients.html
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Body Hair on the Air
Listen to Petit Institute researcher David Hu discuss his latest research on NPR's Science Friday.
http://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/microscopic-hairs-keep-some-critters-clean/
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Hair as Cleaning Apparatus
Hu's research finds that body hair helps keep animals clean and could inspire self-cleaning technologies.
https://theconversation.com/body-hair-helps-animals-stay-clean-and-could-inspire-self-cleaning-technologies-50445

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