"There is a lot of biology out there that we still don't have our hands on that is now possible because of this emerging technology." Ott, who has been studying cilia for nearly two decades ...

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 ...

Nature Cell Biology - Cilia drive fluid flow in development and physiology, but this requires that all cilia in a tissue orient the same way. Earlier studies indicated that both planar cell ...

For a long time, almost all attention was on the motile cilia because their function was readily observable. But scientists, starting with Alexander Kowalevsky had reported the presence of single ...

Instead, they grew a bunch of cilia. To figure out what might be driving these differences ... Maggie Chen is a scientist and science journalist covering health, biology, and bioengineering. She ...