They may include the diagnostic assessment of malfunction in biological samples, new approaches for medical treatments manipulation cilia behavior or the engineering of artificial systems using ...

A new model describes the coordination of beating cilia allowing to predict their functional behavior. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPIDS) analyzed ...

An atomic model of the axoneme core of the hair-like cilia on some cells reveals how they move. Axonemes are molecular machines that enable the movement of cilia, the hair-like structures found on ...

Border regions can cause cilia to coordinate their motion creating a unidirectional wave that is essential for biological functions. Scientists proposed a new model describing this synchronized ...

The cells, genetically edited using CRISPR, also model ciliopathy phenotypes. In addition, human tissues and organoids derived from these cilia-free stem cells manifested ciliopathy-like symptoms.

Stanford researchers discovered that dialing down an overactive enzyme, LRRK2, can regrow lost cellular “antennae” in key ...

New research by Sumeda Nandadasa, Ph.D., reveals how a key protein associated with Meckel-Gruber syndrome, nephronophthisis, ...

Primary cilia are important sensory organelles that play a role in cell signaling and development. “Sometimes people think of [primary cilium] as an antenna because they are coated in receptors and ...

A targeted drug therapy has shown potential to reverse cellular damage in Parkinson’s disease by regenerating critical brain ...

J ing Hughes, an endocrinologist at Washington University in St. Louis, was working late in the lab recently, imaging cilia in mouse pancreatic beta cells.These cilia, which are tiny hairlike ...

However, a synapse between an axon and a cilium has not been observed until now. Interestingly, cilia are present on almost every type of cell, which makes sense during development as cilia are ...

Cilia are filamentous, hair-like structures that can be found on nearly all cells of the human body. Depending on the tissue, they fulfill a plethora of essential tasks, such as the transport of mucus ...