Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum up more food when they are stuck together.

Humans like to think that being multicellular (and bigger) is a definite advantage, even though 80% of life on Earth consists ...

You can increase white blood cells (WBCs) by taking certain medications and eating immune-boosting foods, like yogurt, lean protein foods, antioxidant-rich vegetables, and more. Maintaining a normal ...

This damage then triggers goblet cell production, which leads to the increased ... Tiny hairs in the airways, called cilia, prevent dirt and mucus from getting into the lungs.

We briefly highlight the role of various intestinal epithelial cell types, such as Paneth cells, goblet cells, and enteroendocrine cells, in maintaining intestinal homeostasis and barrier function.

The Department of Cell and Molecular Biology at Karolinska Institutet is a nationally leading academic research center of high international standard where science comes first and foremost. CMB ...

Motile cilia are hair-like cell extensions that beat periodically to generate fluid flow along various epithelial tissues within the body. In dense multiciliated carpets, cilia were shown to exhibit a ...

Cilia, which either generate coordinated motion or sense environmental cues and transmit corresponding signals to the cell body, are highly conserved hair-like structures that protrude from the cell ...

But it was unclear whether primary cilia are required for the survival of Purkinje cells in the cerebellum. Now, Bowie and Goetz (who are two of the researchers that conducted the 2018 study) have ...

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 ...