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 ...

Physics provides new approaches to difficult biological problems: a plausible mathematical model of how cilia and flagella beat has been formulated, but it needs to be subjected to rigorous ...

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.

Artificial cilia spur new thinking in nanotechnology One step closer to learning how cilia movement is coordinated. July 26, 2011. ... the experiments described by Sanchez and colleagues could serve ...

A targeted drug therapy has shown potential to reverse cellular damage in Parkinson’s disease by regenerating critical brain structures and restoring neuron function, according to new findings from a ...

Human bodies have some built-in systems to care for themselves. The cells that line our lungs, nose, brain and reproductive system have cilia, which are tiny, hair-like structures designed to ...

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 ...

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 ...