Cilia are microtubule-based organelles that protrude out of the cell surface, mainly composed of cilia membrane and axial filament. Cilia are very conservative during evolution process, found in many ...

Researchers have described a previously unknown role for the cilia protein IFT88 in mitosis, the process by which a dividing cell separates its chromosomes containing the cell's DNA into two identical ...

Eukaryotic cilia and flagella are essential organelles that extend from the cell surface, playing crucial roles in sensory ...

New structures discovered within cilia show a relationship between certain proteins and juvenile myoclonic epilepsy. The discovery sheds new light on the microstructure of cilia. Cilia are microscopic ...

Cilia and the centrosome are deeply intertwined and depletion of many centrosomal proteins is sufficient to disrupt cilia. Indeed, Nde1 and Tctex-1 are linked to cytoplasmic dynein, so the hypothesis ...

New findings from a team of investigators at Johns Hopkins Medicine have ruled out a mechanism that scientists have long believed controls the number of hairlike structures, called cilia, protruding ...

Left-right asymmetry is known to be established during early embryogenesis by a small cluster of cells termed the left-right organizer. Within this organizer, motile cilia beat rapidly to create a ...

Cilia appear in a wide variety of cell types, including osteoclasts and osteoblasts, where they function as physiologic and biochemical sensors. Cilia appear in a wide variety of cell types, including ...

For every chimney, there must be a chimney sweep. The lung’schimney sweeps are called cilia. They’re tiny hairlike cellularprojections that move like brooms, pushing out mucus and dirt so wecan ...

“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 ...

A historically overlooked rod-like projection present on nearly every cell type in the human body may finally be getting its scientific due: A new study has found that these appendages, called cilia, ...

Researchers have uncovered a synapse on neurons’ tiny hair-like structures, which may facilitate long-term changes to genomic information in the nucleus. A new study from the Howard Hughes Medical ...