The story illustrates the power of translational research, or how unforeseen insights into our own health can be found within the simplest of organisms. Rosenbaum’s organism of choice to study cilia ...

known as "primary" cilia, was believed to serve little to no purpose. Despite the fact that almost every cell found in vertebrates has at least one primary cilium, the organ was regarded as merely ...

And one of these mutations prevented MC4R from reaching nerve cell cilia in the brains of mice. Proteins called ADCY3 (red; yellow arrows for emphasis) and MC4R (green) can be found in the primary ...

What's more, the missing genes are responsible for the development of cilia, the hair-like structures present in at least some of the cells of every other animal known. Hairworms are found all ...

Chapman University postdoctoral researcher Ashraf Mohieldin, Ph.D., and colleagues used imaging at the level of individual cilia and proteomic studies to investigate a swelling in the ciliary membrane ...

Cilia are hair-like structures on the surface of your cells and are found in your lungs, airways, and other areas. They move in a wave-like motion to help position organs during a baby’s growth ...

FLATOW: I just found a while that he can actually create basically artificial, mechanical waving little things like cilia. LICHTMAN: Yeah. Exactly. It's really neat. You see, he wondered if ...

A large international team of researchers has found that cilia on coral reef polyps generate horizontal currents that are used to carry mucus across the surface of a reef. In their paper published ...

Images showed short, stubby cilia on the surface of the infected cells rather than the long projections found on healthy cells. When the team added microscopic beads to the surface of infected ...

known as "primary" cilia, was believed to serve little to no purpose. Despite the fact that almost every cell found in vertebrates has at least one primary cilium, the organ was regarded as merely ...