For more than a century, scientists have known that most cells in the human body come equipped with an odd projection on their outer surfaces called the primary cilium. Unlike the wavy, hairlike cilia ...

For a long time, almost all attention was on the motile cilia because their function was ... cell sensory processes and a variety of human disorders. In general, the primary cilium is a sensory ...

IIF examination of tissue from patient #1 showed typical primary cilia (Figure 2, top inset). Similarly, ultrastructural examination revealed a normal basal body with a fully formed mature primary ...

Results We report for the first time that primary cilia are disrupted in the early stages of ciliogenesis in human GBM tumors ... the distal end of the basal body and when a cilium progresses ...

Most cells in our body have immobile primary cilia. These small projections are ... a partner of the German Center for ...

The primary cilia observed in this study came from both animal and human beta cells. The researchers examined how the skeletal structure (axoneme) formed by microtubules is organized. They discovered ...

Researchers have developed an artificial cilia capable of monitoring mucus conditions in human airways to better detect infection, airway obstruction, or the severity of diseases like cystic fibrosis.

Xiaoguang Dong, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, is leading a team of researchers that has developed a system of artificial cilia capable of monitoring mucus conditions in human ...