In her lab at Washington University in St. Louis, endocrinologist Jing Hughes studies a peculiar structure that sticks out of the surfaces of human pancreatic islet cells: the primary cilium. The ...

By reexamining 3D images used to map the connections between brain cells, researchers are uncovering new information about a small, elusive, and often overlooked cellular appendage.

Dysfunctions of the tiny cell processes (primary cilia) of the pancreatic beta cells could be a cause of type 2 diabetes.

B.S. – Biology. University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA. Research in my lab focuses on better understanding how motile cilia structure affects its function. Motile cilia are tiny, hair-like, ...

Cilia assembly relies on cargo trains that move bidirectionally on separate tubules of the ciliary microtubular structure, preventing traffic jams. Here, the authors demonstrate that train sorting ...

Glia (light green) respond to the loss of dendrite cilia (dark pink) by accumulating excess extracellular matrix (dark green). Neurons may get all the ...

But comparatively few studies have investigated how glia protect and maintain dendrites and their delicate cilia. Knowing that dendrite structure changes correlate with learning and memory ...

But comparatively few studies have investigated how glia protect and maintain dendrites and their delicate cilia. Knowing that dendrite structure changes correlate with learning and memory ...

In mature cells, the cilia are disassembled and go away completely. However, the centriole, the structure from which the cilium grows, remains docked on the surface of these mature cells.