The cilia are antenna-like organelles that sense shifts in the extracellular environment and communicate these changes to the intracellular space. Although scientists first identified primary cilia in ...

Note that while they may serve as sensory receptor cell specializations, primary cilia can simultaneously support major IFT functions of the cell (Figure 3). The primary cilium has gone from being ...

Cilia are important for regulating cellular processes, but because of their small size and number, it has been difficult for scientists to explore cilia in brain cells with traditional techniques ...

Meanwhile, we are also looking at more complex scenarios such as synchronization among multiple cilia. Through these further investigations, we hope to figure out the necessary conditions under ...

Instead, they grew a bunch of cilia. To figure out what might be driving these differences, the scientists sifted through the genes that were differentially expressed between this variant cell cycle ...

But how do cilia know which way to drive the flow? Figure 1: Geometrical relation between cilia orientation, planar cell polarity (PCP) and direction of flow. The connection between flow and PCP ...

Cilia are important for regulating cellular processes, but because of their small size and number, it has been difficult for scientists to explore cilia in brain cells with traditional techniques ...