Then it has to escape the mucus in our windpipes that capture particles, which are then swept out by tiny hairs called cilia.

Researchers at AIIMS Delhi have developed an innovative technique for diagnosing primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD), a genetic ...

The lungs clean themselves. They do this by producing mucus, which traps unwanted substances. Tiny hairs, known as cilia, then move this mucus up the airways. People remove the mucus by coughing ...

Cilia inside the lung-chip. Microscope image courtesy of Emulate, Inc. The organ-chip consists of transparent channels lined with thousands of living cells and pumped with liquid containing ...

Cilia are small hairs which beat to push the mucus back up the trachea so it can be swallowed and destroyed in the stomach. Clean air then enters the two bronchi, one bronchus going to each lung.

The new diagnostic technique improved the detection of motile cilia abnormalities ... led by Dr Subhash Chandra Yadav of Electron Microscope Facility at the anatomy department and Prof Kana ...