cilia

Commenting on Nikon's social media post, Edward Phelps, associate professor at Florida University, observed some of the structures "pop in and out of existence" and the cilia "appear from nowhere".

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

But the challenges made by other scientists include claims that the video contains shapes and movements which did not fit with normal cell structures or behaviours, and that the cilia seemed to be too big.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

This year's winning video was magnified to 100 times in size, and featured tiny hair-like structures, called cilia, in the airways of a child with a rare genetic disease.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Primary cilia help cells sense and interpret chemical signals from their surroundings.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

His cilia are not cilia at all, but individual spirochetes, and at the base of attachment of each spirochete is an oval organelle, embedded in the myxotricha membrane, which is a bacterium.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

The primary cilium is a microscopic antenna-like structure that projects from the surface of most cells.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

The reason for this daytime-induced enhanced healing process appears to be from the relationship the 24-hour cycle has on the length of the primary cilium.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 21, 2023

The current model is that cilia are attached to one another by “tip links,” structures which link the tips of one cilium to another.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015

But almost all human cells also have one primary, or nonmotile, cilium that functions more like a molecular antenna.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 10, 2014

From the large size of each cilium they are very favorable creatures for exhibiting the real nature of the action, which gives rise to the rotatory appearance, and which can be easier studied than described.

From Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations by Henry J. Slack