Cilia are microtubule-based hair-like organelles that extend from the surface of almost all cell types of the human body. They have been adapted as versatile tools for various tissue-specific ...

The film discusses the anatomical and functional significance of the nose, throat, and ears from a medical perspective. It explains how the nose functions as an air passage that warms and filters ...

(In contrast, cilia on frog skin move mucus around to ... cells—rather like the different tissue types or organs of the human body. “What’s never been shown before is the effect these ...

A coronavirus infection can mow down the forests of hairlike cilia ... parts of the body can help researchers find ways to block it. Chakrabarti and colleagues infected lab-grown human cells ...

The tubes drain urine in the body’s “wet and ... based system didn’t harm human-derived cells. Still, these specialized tubes, which would have cilia along their inner and outer walls ...

Scientists have developed tiny groups of human cells that can move on their ... These lung cells are covered in hairlike structures called cilia. But at this point in the research, the cilia ...

Researchers from ETH Zurich, the University of Bern and Bern University Hospital have developed a non-invasive cleaning technology: microscopic cilia on the stent surface are activated by ultrasound ...