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Three Georgia Tech researchers working together in the lab on cancer research
November 20, 2025
Georgia Tech Ranked No. 7 Globally in Interdisciplinary Science Rankings
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Georgia Tech has been ranked 7th in the world in the 2026 Times Higher Education Interdisciplinary Science Rankings

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Matthew Gombolay and Aaron Young pose in the lab while Ph.D. researchers work on a leg exoskeleton device.
November 19, 2025
Real-World Helper Exoskeletons Just Got Closer to Reality
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Georgia Tech researchers are using AI to quickly train exoskeleton devices, making it much more practical to develop, improve, and ultimately deploy wearable robots for people with impaired mobility.

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A mock-up of an AI-powered glove
October 27, 2025
Georgia Tech’s Soft Robotics Flips the Script on ‘The Terminator’
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AI-powered artificial muscles made from pliable materials are reshaping recovery, from stroke rehabilitation to prosthetic design. These machines help people regain motion, strength, and confidence.

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Yurt-like test chambers in a natural boreal spruce bog in northern Minnesota (provided).
October 23, 2025
Peatlands’ ‘Huge Reservoir’ of Carbon at Risk of Release
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Researchers analyzed data from 10, yurt-like test chambers in a natural boreal spruce bog in northern Minnesota.

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Illustration of cancer cells along a road with location markers next to each cell to represent the cancer "atlas" Gabe Kwong and his collaborators are building.
October 16, 2025
Cancer Atlas Offers a Roadmap to Detecting Tumors Earlier Than Ever
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Two years into a $49.5 million cancer-mapping project, researchers are opening the door to new kinds of tests that could alert doctors to multiple kinds of cancer when they’re most treatable.

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A person seated in a beige chair using a computer setup with multiple cables and devices, facing a large monitor in a testing or research room, with another individual visible through a window in an adjacent control room.
October 15, 2025
Head to Toe: Georgia Tech Researchers Treat the Entire Human Body Through Neuroscience Research
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Meet Georgia Tech’s neurology experts exploring the brain’s impact on the entire body.

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A brown basilisk missing both its entire left forearm and part of its right hind limb. Brian Hillen
October 13, 2025
3-Legged Lizards Can Thrive Against All Odds, Challenging Assumptions About How Evolution Works in the Wild
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Research uncovered 122 cases of limb loss across 58 lizard species and revealed that these “three-legged pirates” – the rare survivors of traumatic injuries – can run just as fast, maintain healthy body weight, reproduce successfully and live surprisingly

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Mark Styczynski in lab
October 7, 2025
ChBE Professor Leads Team Awarded $9.2M NSF Grant to Build “Plug-and-Play” Biotechnology
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Researchers received a $9.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to accelerate the adoption of cell-free systems in biomanufacturing.

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Researchers show off a lung-on-a-chip that has an immune system. Long term, this technology could lead to highly personalized medicine
September 24, 2025
Breathtaking Breakthrough: Lung-on-a-Chip Defends Itself
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Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt researchers have built the first lung-on-a-chip with a working immune system, a breakthrough with the potential to reshape how we study disease, move beyond animal testing, and administer lifesaving therapies.

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man baring chest an holding a patch against his skin
September 23, 2025
Georgia Tech Startup Sets Sights on Transforming Heart Failure Care
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Heart failure remains one of the most challenging conditions to monitor outside the clinic.

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Hong Yeo holds shoe insert.
September 18, 2025
A Step Forward: New Smart Shoe Insert Could Improve Mobility for People With Walking Problems
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The affordable wearable measures foot pressure and could improve stroke and Parkinson’s therapy.

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An aerial photo of the SPRUCE experiment.
September 16, 2025
Meet the Microbes: What a Warming Wetland Reveals About Earth’s Carbon Future
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A new study is unearthing how and why peatlands are producing carbon dioxide and methane. 

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