Margaret Gardel

Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering lab students

For a sustainable future, scientists rethink plastics and devices

A research team at the University of Chicago is exploring how cells remember and respond to environmental pressure. In a simulated actin network, actin filaments start out randomly oriented (left) but align after pressure is applied (right).

UChicago scientists experiment with materials that can “remember”

Brightly colored wavy patterns

In step toward autonomous materials, researchers design patterns in self-propelling liquid crystals

Graduate student Caitlin Anderson at the TIRF microscope

For the first time, scientists demonstrate self-repair mechanism in cells

Prof. Margaret Gardel

UChicago scientist receives prestigious award for innovative biophysics research

Aerial photo of UChicago Medicine campus

‘Everyone felt the urgency’: Labs around UChicago donate protective equipment to hospital

Heart muscle cell

For the first time, scientists recreate cell division—outside a cell

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Faculty members receive named, distinguished service professorships

UChicago, Yale scientists look to living cells to develop novel self-actuating materials

Physicists explore fundamental laws of biological materials