Millions of people worldwide are affected by African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and other life-threatening infections caused by microscopic parasites borne by insects such as the tsetse fly.

Home to over 500 different bacteria, the human mouth ... Because they lack flagella, which allows bacteria to move, researchers hypothesize that this “unique elongation and cell division ...

Likewise, for many years it was generally assumed that the entire phylum Nematoda, comprising roundworms, completely lacked cilia or flagella ... cell sensory processes and a variety of human ...

PHYSICOCHEMICAL characterization of components of flagella and cilia is essential for an understanding of the mechanisms underlying flagellar and ciliary movement. The so-called “9 + 2” fibres ...

Ishimoto and colleagues analyzed experimental data on human sperm and also modeled the motion of green algae, Chlamydomonas.

In nature, the ten-micron small, single-cell microalgae are fantastic swimmers, propelled by their two whip-like flagella at the front. However, it wasn’t clear what would happen if scientists covered ...

When speaking of motors, most people think of those powering vehicles and human machinery ... The rotor is a large rotating structure, anchored to the cell membrane, that turns the flagellum. On the ...