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Commercial Investment Firm Utilizes Art to Market Atlanta Building ATLANTA, May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Atlanta, GA (May 2013) - The owners of 100 Peachtree in downtown Atlanta are utilizing original art as a rebranding tool to help lease space. In 2011 America's Capital Partners (ACP), in partnership with Five Mile Capital, acquired the former Equitable Building, a classic example of the International Style of Architecture designed by the renowned American architectural and...

A potential new strategy to developing new drugs to control inflammation without serious side effects has been found by Georgia State University researchers and international colleagues. Jian-Dong Li, director of Georgia State's Center for Inflammation, Immunity and Infection, and his team discovered that blocking a certain pathway involved in the biological process of inflammation will suppress it. Inhibiting a molecule called phosphodiesterase 4B, or PDE4B, suppresses inflammation by...

ATLANTA, March 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Southern Telecom, a wholly owned subsidiary of Southern Company, today announced an expansion of its agreement with Georgia State University, a leading research university in Atlanta, Ga. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080801/SOCOLOGO ) Southern Telecom has completed the installation of Georgia State University's Northern Fiber Optic Ring. Southern Telecom leveraged its inventory of existing Atlanta central business district ducts...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Researchers at Georgia State University's Center for Inflammation, Immunity and Infection (CIII) discovered a new process to make a one-time, universal influenza vaccine. The team found a way to make the one-time vaccine by using recombinant genetic engineering technology that does not use seasonal virus. The new vaccine uses a virus' small fragment that does not vary among the different strains of flu viruses. By using the...

Results from a study conducted at Georgia State University suggest that a "fight" between bacteria normally living in the intestines and the immune system, kicked off by another type of bacteria, may be linked to two types of chronic disease. The study suggests that the "fight" continues after the instigator bacteria have been cleared by the body, according to Andrew Gewirtz, professor of biology at the GSU Center for Inflammation, Immunity and Infection. That fight can result in metabolic...

A team of researchers, including a scientist from the Viral Immunology Center at Georgia State University, have found that a type of herpesvirus infection of the eye is associated with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a disease that causes blindness in the elderly. The scientists found that human cytomegalovirus, a type of herpesvirus, causes the production of vascular endothelial growth factor, or VEGF, a signal protein that regulates the formation of new blood vessels....

Researchers at Georgia State University have discovered that in one species of freshwater crustaceans, social status can affect the configuration of neural circuitry. They found that dominant and subordinate crayfish differ in their behavioral responses when touched unexpectedly, and that those differences correlate with differences in neural circuits that mediate those responses. The article was published this week in the Journal of Neuroscience. The research team included Edwards,...

Drinking enough alcohol to become intoxicated increases aggression significantly in people who have one particular personality trait, according to new research. But people without that trait don’t get any more aggressive when drunk than they would when they’re sober. That trait is the ability to consider the future consequences of current actions. “People who focus on the here and now, without thinking about the impact on the future, are more aggressive than others when they...

ATLANTA, Oct. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- VaxyGen Manufacturing Services LLC ("VaxyGen") announced today the signing of an exclusive license and collaboration agreement with Georgia State University Research Foundation ("GSURF") to provide VaxyGen the exclusive license to a novel patent for producing and purifying proteins in development as biopharmaceutical and vaccine products. In addition, VaxyGen and GSURF established a collaborative agreement whereby VaxyGen will commercialize the...

University turns to business intelligence software from Rapid Insight to streamline reporting needs and increase analytic efficiency. Conway NH (PRWEB) August 24, 2011 Nationally recognized as a top pubic research university, Georgia State University is committed to enhancing this reputation by creating a student environment of diversity and success. Achieving this goal relies on their ability to quickly digest and analyze their applicant and enrollment data on a daily basis. When...