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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Air pollution is the second leading risk factor for death globally, with most of the world population subject to harmful air ...

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 ...