it has been difficult for scientists to explore cilia in brain cells with traditional techniques, leaving their organization and function unclear. In a series of papers appearing in Current ...

Note that while they may serve as sensory receptor cell specializations, primary cilia can simultaneously support major IFT functions of the cell (Figure 3). The primary cilium has gone from being ...

Proteins in the sheath of cellular protrusions control how effectively cells can adhere to surfaces. Biological cells often ...

Biological cells often possess thin, hair-like protrusions on their surface known as cilia, which serve various functions ...

Instead, they were looking at a previously unknown kind of cilia that could not only sense their environment but also respond to it by modulating the function of beta cells. Although, according to ...

Biological cells often possess thin, hair-like protrusions on their surface known as cilia, which serve various functions ranging from movement to sensing environmental signals. Researchers from ...

Earlier studies indicated that both planar cell polarity (PCP) signalling and cilia-generated fluid flows ... ranging from the disgusting but important function of mucus clearance to the more ...

Prachee Avasthi took a winding path to specializing in studying cilia—the hairlike appendages that enable cells to move about and sense their environments. During her undergraduate days at the ...

Biological cells often possess thin, hair-like protrusions on their surface known as cilia, which serve various functions ranging from movement to ...

These are "cells that form new roles beyond their original biological function," said Popular Mechanics, like "using hairlike cilia for locomotion rather than transporting mucus." Xenobots also ...