Researchers have developed an artificial cilia that monitors mucus in human airways to better detect infection, airway ...

Researchers from Vanderbilt University have developed a system of artificial cilia that can reportedly monitor mucus ...

The paper, titled "Sensory Artificial Cilia for In Situ Monitoring of Airway ... conjunction with an airway stent within an artificial trachea and sheep trachea. Sensing signals are transferred ...

Cilia are small hairs which beat to push the mucus back up the trachea so it can be swallowed and destroyed in the stomach. Clean air then enters the two bronchi, one bronchus going to each lung.

Mimicking the sensing ability of biological cilia, Dong and his team developed ... conjunction with an airway stent within an artificial trachea and sheep trachea. Sensing signals are transferred ...

22 From the trachea and bronchi of human beings (or animals ... When the apparatus is properly made the cilia can be seen through the microscope to be beating furiously and will continue beating ...

Xiaoguang Dong is leading a team of researchers that has developed a system of artificial cilia capable of monitoring mucus ...

A research team at Vanderbilt University, led by Xiaoguang Dong, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has developed ...

Mimicking the sensing ability of biological cilia, Dong and his team developed ... conjunction with an airway stent within an artificial trachea and sheep trachea. Sensing signals are transferred ...