Cilia play obvious roles in several tissues ... hair cells of the ear is intimately associated with the stereocilia (actin-filled microvilli), whose movements with respect to each other lead ...

Cilia and flagella are evolutionarily conserved, microtubule-based, hair-like organelles that protrude from the cell surface. They are the fundamental units of motion in cellular biology ...

HKUST structural biologist Mingjie Zhang and his team have found that the microvilli and the stereocilia tip-link complexes, despite only having Harmonin in common, are formed via strikingly ...