![New muscle strands thanks to stem cell hydrogel](https://biosciences.gatech.edu/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/4l-4-image_export-30_c123.jpg?itok=3lc92BVu)
Elderly accident victims and Duchene muscular dystrophy sufferers could someday benefit from this stem cell hydrogel successfully tested in mice.
![Brian Hammer](https://biosciences.gatech.edu/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/2018_brian_hammer_by_gt.sq250.jpg?itok=QltTHwRJ)
They are among eight selected by the American Society for Microbiology in 2018.
![Illustration for dehydration and the brain](https://biosciences.gatech.edu/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/dehyd.brain_.jpg?itok=wJeNxkdH)
Visible proof that dehydration messes with the brain and cognitive performance.
![As We Get Parched, Cognition Can Sputter, Dehydration Study Says](https://biosciences.gatech.edu/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/mindy.portrait.rooms_2.jpg?itok=mSe9Hajd)
Summer heat fuzzing your concentration? Making you fumble? It may be dehydration.