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Suddath Symposium gets into the Brain

25th annual gathering at the Petit Institute featured ground-breaking research in neuroscience

Brain-computer Interface Allows Fast, Accurate Typing by People with Paralysis

High performance brain-to-computer interface

Raquel Lieberman Is Having A Great Year, and It’s Only February

Raquel Lieberman, associate professor at the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, is having the Best. Winter. Ever.

BME Team Reaches InVenture Finals

CauteryGuard among six teams vying for $20,000 top prize

Weaver Wins JDRF Fellowship

Petit Institute postdoc working to find a cure for type 1 diabetes

A Joint Effort

Trio of Petit Institute labs link tendon overuse injury to degenerative changes in shoulder cartilage

DNA “Barcoding” Allows Rapid Testing of Nanoparticles for Therapeutic Delivery

Researchers have developed a new technique for rapidly screening the ability of nanoparticles to selectively deliver therapeutic genes to specific organs of the body.

Ajit Yoganathan Presented with Tamil’s Information Lifetime Achievement Award

Founder and Director of the Center for Innovative Cardiovascular Technologies

Cholera Bacteria Stab and Poison Enemies so Predictably

The actions of bacteria locked in battle are nearly as calculable as a chemical reaction.

They are Scholars, Hear Them Roar

2017 class of Petit Undergraduate Research Scholars most diverse in program history

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In the News

Charting a New Path
Consortium develops national roadmap for advanced cell manufacturing, showing the way to cell-based therapeutics.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/national-roadmap-advanced-cell-manufacturing-shows-path-cell-141300427.html
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Crunchy Knees
Device developed by Georgia Tech researcher Omer Inan could help diagnose bad joints.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/crunching-knee-device-georgia-institute-of-technology-joint-pain_uk_5756a972e4b0411d4de1ecbb
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Wasteful Science or Innovative Research?
Petit Institute researcher David Hu eloquently answers a U.S. Senator's criticism in a guest blog for Scientific American.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/confessions-of-a-wasteful-scientist/
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Do Your Knees Crack?
Video featuring Petit Institute's Omer Inan in action reveals the sounds our joints make when they bend.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3606406/Do-knees-crack-Try-listening-Excruciating-video-reveals-gruesome-sounds-joints-make-time-bend.html#ixzz49fe5zJ91
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Sound Judgment
Petit Institute researcher Omer Inan can listen to your joints. What he hears can used to determine what type of damage has occurred.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03w35yz
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Living Life Rafts
From the lab of David Hu: Ants use their bodies to weave waterproof fabric to survive floods
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2016/05/ants_weave_waterproof_fabric_t.html
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The Beginning of it All
Georgia Tech researchers investigate how molecular 'midwives gave birth to RNA
http://www.astrobio.net/news-exclusive/molecular-midwives-helped-give-birth-rna/
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NASA Awards Grants
Petit Institute researcher focusing on astronaut health for long-distance space flight
http://coe.gatech.edu/news/two-coe-faculty-members-awarded-grants-support-astronaut-health-long-duration-space-exploration
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Effects of Titanium Dioxide
Common nanoparticle has subtle effects on oxidative stress genes
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160510085500.htm
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Building Blocks of Everything
Nick Hud's groundbreaking research on the origin of life featured in Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/04/26/the-buliding-blocks-of-life-werent-that-hard-to-put-together/

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