A new study led by Peter Yunker and Will Ratcliff probes the evolution of multicellular organisms and provides new insight into decades-old theories about early cell specialization and division of labor.
The genetic material inside a virus is surrounded by a protein-based covering called a capsid. Searches for therapeutic treatments and vaccines are now focusing on proteins like capsids that drugs could attack, and a highly read study from a Georgia Tech research group is offering expertise to aid in efforts like these.
Jamie Gorman’s research involves the psychology of teamwork and how to get people in all kinds of industries working together in a better, more efficient manner. His two latest projects seek to understand how to do that when one of those teammates or trainers is made of software, and the other team members are people: public school students and members of the U.S. Armed Forces.
This is a fascinating reflection on online teaching by Georgia Tech faculty member Jennifer Leavey. Teaching virtually this fall, Leavey felt distant and removed from her students and assumed they, too, would feel they never connected with her. Turns out the students had a different take on their experience.
In the College of Sciences at Georgia Tech, 2020 started out as ordinarily as most other spring semesters on campus. Students, faculty, and staff filled lecture halls, offices, and labs. They began settling into research, projects, and studying for exams — with many looking forward to spring break travels, Commencement festivities, and celebrating the end of another academic year on campus alongside colleagues, classmates, mentors, and friends.
The Knudson Hypothesis argued that two mutations in the type of genes that suppress tumors are needed to lead to changes that could cause cancer. However, John McDonald, a School of Biological Sciences professor and the director of Georgia Tech’s Integrated Cancer Research Center, says the research, published in Oncotarget, “shows, for the first time, that nearly all healthy individuals carry at least one potentially cancer-causing tumor suppressor gene mutation.
The cover story for the August 6, 2020 issue of Nature features the optical observations of lightning flashes on Jupiter made by the Juno spacecraft. The article, “Small lightning flashes from shallow electric storms on Jupiter,” was written by select members of the NASA Mission Juno team. The team includes Paul G.
Physicist Elisabetta Matsumoto is an avid knitter and has been since taking up the hobby as a child. During graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania in 2009, Matsumoto came across an unusually knotty stitch while knitting a pattern for a Japanese red dragon. “I have books with thousands of different stitch patterns, but the one in the red dragon wall hanging was one I had never seen,” she says. That got her thinking about the geometry of stitches and, eventually, led her to study the mathematics of knitting.
Elisabetta Matsumoto, an applied mathematician and physicist at Georgia Tech, is embarking on a five-year project to investigate the mathematics and mechanics of knitting.
For months, Georgia Tech has been actively promoting safety measures to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus and keep the campus community as safe as possible. Protocols include providing personal protection equipment (PPE), disinfecting public areas and high-touch surfaces several times a day, and physically reconfiguring classrooms to enable social distancing.