Urinary stents and catheters are implanted medical tubes that are widely used in human and veterinary medicine to drain urine ...

Recent studies in a range of model organisms have made important progress ... been previously proposed — namely that either nodal cilia provide a general mechanism for breaking the initial ...

More information: Guizhi Guo et al, Disruption of photoreceptor cilia is a critical event in the pathogenesis of retinal degeneration—Insights from N-methyl-N-nitrosourea-induced mouse model ...

We have the capability to develop and implement protocols to measure cilia beat frequency and toxicity on small airway epithelial cells model, retinal toxicity and disease modelling on retinal ...

Researchers from ETH Zurich, the University of Bern and Bern University Hospital have developed a non-invasive cleaning technology: microscopic cilia on the stent surface are activated by ultrasound ...