Research by the University of Cambridge and University of Strathclyde reveals that cilia in the respiratory tract generate ...

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.

Cilia, the little "hairs" attached to almost all cells of the human body, play a role in various cellular functions and cause diseases called ciliopathies when they are defective. Researchers from ...

Primary cilia are sensory organelles present on the cell surface; however, their physical structure has not been defined due to technical reasons. A new PNAS study examined primary cilia in human ...

Microstructure of cilia: Structure, protein elements critical to human function, disease uncovered. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2014 / 06 ...

Modelling ciliopathy phenotypes in human tissues derived from pluripotent stem cells with genetically ablated cilia. Nature Biomedical Engineering , 2022; 6 (4): 463 DOI: 10.1038/s41551-022-00880 ...

"What was disconcerting about human cilia defects was that, because the physiology of these diseases are so complex and broad, the disorders were not initially tied to cilia dysfunctions," says Zuker.

Almost every eukaryotic cell type has cilia—tiny hairlike structures—on their surface. But, the function of cilia is not well understood. Now, researchers show that human pluripotent stem ...

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Although scientists first identified primary cilia in human pancreatic islets 60 years ago and know that dysfunction of cilia affects the development and function of the pancreas, there are still many ...

Nia Teerikorpi, who performed most of the experiments in this study, grew immature human nerve cells that had been mutated ... that all 45 genes function in tiny hair-like protrusions (cilia) ...

Background Primary cilia are non-motile sensory cytoplasmic organelles that are involved in cell cycle progression. Ultrastructurally, the primary cilium region is complex, with normal ...