Over months, she and her collaborators optimized a protocol for peeling away the entire cell membrane to see the cytoskeletal components of the cilia. Then they applied this method to donated human ...

She had stayed late working on her microscopy, she explains ... that are responsible for active motion in so-called motile cilia, the kind known to wiggle that are only observed in the lungs, the ...

A drug-carrying molecule designed to cure disease by slipping past the lung's natural defenses offers ... mesh of mucus and gels surrounding the cilia to be internalized by epithelial cells ...