A recent study led by Paul DeCaen, Ph.D., associate professor of Pharmacology, has identified novel molecular mechanisms by ...

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 ...

Only recently it has been found that the primary cilia of each cell communicate with each other during the developmental stages of a fetus and are important for the development of different structures ...

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-needed ...

While examining the ultrastructure of the primary cilia during cilia deconstruction, the researchers observed that many differentiating GCs possessed short cilia that were completely enclosed within a ...

Finding the 3D structure of TULP3 and IFT-A in complex is a major accomplishment that will give insight into how signaling molecules move to and from cilia, and how disruption in the interface between ...

But the volume EM images used to create connectomes don't just show neurons. They provide nanometer-scale views of all the cells and structures in a volume of tissue—including cilia.

The results of experiments in mice models were "astounding," said biochemist Suzanne Pfeffer of Stanford University.

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.

Researchers have uncovered a synapse on neurons’ tiny hair-like structures, which may facilitate long-term changes to genomic information in the nucleus. A new study from the Howard Hughes Medical ...

The study, in collaboration with researchers from the lab of Prof. Ludo Van Den Bosch at VIB-KU Leuven, revealed that mutations in C21orf2 impair the formation and structure of primary cilia.