Scientists have discovered a previously unrecognized way that human airways protect lungs from infection—through the action of cilia, tiny hair-like structures lining the respiratory tract.

An international team of researchers, led by the University of Exeter, have been awarded a Wellcome Discovery Award grant of ...

Cilia depend on their highly differentiated structure, a 9 + 2 arrangement, to remove particles from the lung and to transport reproductive cells. Immortalized cells could potentially be of great ...

Dysfunctions of the tiny cell processes (primary cilia) of the pancreatic beta cells could be a cause of type 2 diabetes. Little is known about the structure and function of these cilia. An ...

Everyone has, at some point in their life, held a baby in their arms. They could be your children, grandchildren, niece or nephew or siblings. Have you ever stopped to wonder how many things must have ...

The first image of the structures that power human cilia – the tiny, hairlike projections that line our airways – has been produced by a team involving UCL researchers and could lead to much ...

D espite their initial description 180 years ago, scientists for many years failed to understand the significance of the lone hair-like structures that extend from the surface of many cell types, ...

Cilia are important for regulating cellular processes, ... However, the centriole, the structure from which the cilium grows, remains docked on the surface of these mature cells.

Thin, hair-like biological structures called cilia are tiny but mighty. Each one, made up of more than 600 different proteins, works together with hundreds of others in a tightly-packed layer to ...

They found that MC4R accumulates in the antennae-like structures known as primary cilia in several groups of neurons in the hypothalamus region of the brain.