Cilia are important for regulating cellular processes, but because of their small size and number, it has been difficult for scientists to explore cilia in brain cells with traditional techniques ...

Cilia (the technical term for nose hair) is part of the system that protects your lungs from dirt and debris that gets into your airways. “They not only help filter out any incoming invaders ...

Unequal interactions between cilia cause synchronization To create a synchronized and efficient wave, cilia need to accurately coordinate their beating motion. Unlike football fans watching their ...

Primary cilia are sensory organelles present on the ... The base of each cilium appears tethered by fine threads to the microvilli and cytoskeleton surface. These threads resemble actin fibers ...

Within this organizer, motile cilia beat rapidly to create a leftward directional flow of extracellular fluid, which is the first outward sign of a left-right difference. This early flow has been ...

Jackson and his colleagues zoomed in on two structures found on multiciliated epithelial cells: cilia and microvilli. Although both are well known, neither structure has previously been implicated ...

Cilia perform numerous functions for the cell: they help cells swim, move fluid, and send messages to each other. Cilia ensure that we can see, they remove substances from the lungs, move fluid in ...

A new study from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus (MD, USA) has identified special junctions on primary cilia, tiny hair-like organelles on the surface of neurons. These ...

But together, these structures routinely pull off biological marvels within the body. Cilia remove inhaled pathogens from the respiratory tract, carry cerebrospinal fluid across brain cavities ...