Prof. Margaret Gardel was awarded the prestigious Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Biophysics, which recognizes distinguished scientists under age 45 who have made outstanding and ...

Every living thing moves—prey from predators, ants to crumbs, leaves toward sunlight. But at the most fundamental level, scientists are still struggling to grasp the physics behind how our own cells ...

What skills do you use every day in your job? That’s an interesting question, because they are skills I would never have expected would be so important when I was an undergraduate studying physics. I ...

John Devany, then a graduate student in the lab of biophysicist Margaret Gardel, had been studying epithelial monolayers—sheets of cells that form barriers in skin and coat internal organs —when he ...

As University of Chicago faculty, graduate students and postdocs scrambled to close on-campus research laboratories last week due to the spread of the novel coronavirus, Prof. Margaret Gardel knew she ...

Margaret Gardel, professor in physics at the University of Chicago, is uncovering the fundamental physics laws that govern the behavior of cellular materials in collaboration with Jennifer Ross of the ...