In his research, Jacob Notbohm takes a closer look at human diseases and injuries—studying cellular and material properties on the scale of a micron. And, one of nine College of…

The cells in our bodies move in groups during biological processes such as wound healing and tissue development—but because of resistance, or viscosity, those cells can’t just neatly glide past each other. Or can they?…

Collagen is the most prevalent protein in the human body, keeping our joints healthy, our bones strong and our skin stretchy. However, studies increasingly show that collagen in the extracellular…

Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT) is a mouthful of a heart disease that’s essentially an invisible ticking time bomb for the estimated 1 in 10,000 people who have it. Often,…

Ovarian cancer devastates more than 20,000 women in the United States every year, due in part to its tendency to evade detection and present after metastatic spread. A key element…

When I became the chair of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics just over a year ago, I never could have expected the year that…

Ovarian cancer remains one of the deadliest female cancers — often diagnosed once it has already spread to other areas of the body. Later diagnosis also means that researchers do…

When we cut our skin, groups of cells rush, en masse, to the site to heal the wound. But the complicated physics and mechanics of this collective cell movement—which is…

The National Science Foundation has named nine promising University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering faculty members recipients of its prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards. These awards support early-career faculty who…

Be it a paper cut or a surgical incision, whenever we are wounded, cells work together to heal our bodies. To do so, cells must move, and Jacob Notbohm wants…