In her lab at Washington University in St. Louis, endocrinologist Jing Hughes studies a peculiar structure that sticks out of the surfaces of human pancreatic islet cells: the primary cilium. The ...

These solitary and apparently nonfunctional cilia are far more widespread than the motile type. For example, in humans, only a few cell types have motile cilia, namely sperm, epithelia cells in ...

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Researchers from the University of New Hampshire looked at the developmental process of the cerebral cortex—the outermost ...

“This [mouse] paper contributes nicely to a consensus that cilia are important in the brain for energy homeostasis and feeding behaviors,” says Nick Berbari, a biologist at Indiana University–Purdue ...

Biological cells often possess thin, hair-like protrusions on their surface known as cilia, which serve various functions ranging from movement to sensing environmental signals. Researchers from ...

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.

a static environment that doesn’t let cells behave as if they are in the human body. Cilia inside the lung-chip. Microscope image courtesy of Emulate, Inc. The organ-chip consists of transparent ...