Acoustic streaming generated by ultrasound-activated cilia to clean stents and catheters. (Courtesy: Pedro Amado and Cornel ...

Whereas primary cilia have relatively little additional structure, motile cilia have both a central doublet of microtubules as well as inner and outer dynein arms and radial spokes, which are all ...

"The role of cilia in cancer is, in itself, unexpected," Dr. Tanos said. "When we started studying this structure, we expected cancer cells not to have cilia, because the presence of cilia had ...

For a long time, almost all attention was on the motile cilia because their function was readily observable. But scientists, starting with Alexander Kowalevsky had reported the presence of single ...