Covering stents with hairlike structures called cilia may help keep the implanted medical tubes clean, preventing infection, researchers report April 28 in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...

Recent studies in a range of model organisms have made important progress ... been previously proposed — namely that either nodal cilia provide a general mechanism for breaking the initial ...

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2418938122 The researchers envision new medical devices featuring cilia on the inner and outer walls that, using ultrasound activation through the skin, will generate an ...

We have the capability to develop and implement protocols to measure cilia beat frequency and toxicity on small airway epithelial cells model, retinal toxicity and disease modelling on retinal ...

More information: Guizhi Guo et al, Disruption of photoreceptor cilia is a critical event in the pathogenesis of retinal degeneration—Insights from N-methyl-N-nitrosourea-induced mouse model ...

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 ...