But he is unimpressed that the human cell clusters can “swim” with their cilia. That, he says, is pretty much inevitable if you have beating cilia once the spheroids are freed from the gel matrix.

Scientists have created tiny living robots from human cells that can move around in a lab dish and may one day be able to help heal wounds or damaged tissue, according to a new study.. A team at ...

New research by Sumeda Nandadasa, Ph.D., reveals how a key protein associated with Meckel-Gruber syndrome, nephronophthisis, ...

New research by Sumeda Nandadasa, PhD, reveals how a key protein associated with Meckel-Gruber syndrome, nephronophthisis, ...

Cilia (green) on human beta cells in a pancreatic islet. BELLA MELENA . PDF version. Register for free to listen to this article. Listen with Speechify. 0:00. 3:00. Share. J ing Hughes, an ...

A colored image of an anthrobot. Hairlike structures called cilia enable the bots to move. Gizem Gumuskaya, Tufts University. Scientists have developed tiny groups of human cells that can move on ...

Dysfunctions of the tiny cell processes (primary cilia) of the pancreatic beta cells could be a cause of type 2 diabetes. Little is known about the structure and function of these cilia. An ...

The primary cilia observed in this study came from both animal and human beta cells. The researchers examined how the skeletal structure (axoneme) formed by microtubules is organized. They discovered ...

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

Related: Most detailed human brain map ever contains 3,300 cell types "There are a number of cognitive difficulties associated with mutations in the proteins that make up cilia," co-senior study ...