Physicists Tom Schwarz, Bing Zhou, and Junjie Zhu will have a key hand in upgrading CERN’s Large Hadron Collider using grants from the National Science Foundation totaling $7.1 million.
The team observed that cells use tiny fibers called apical stress fibers to help cells retain their shape during development. They also saw that these stress fibers help the cell understand its own size and help trigger when the cell should divide.
