cilia

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By combining high speed imaging with three dimensional reconstructions of more than 1,000 cells, the researchers showed how networks of fused neurons coordinate the beating of cilia on different parts of the animal's body.

From Science Daily • Mar. 6, 2026

In the lungs, their cilia sway back and forth to keep fluids like mucus from collecting.

From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2024

They captured them at different stages of maturity, hoping to glimpse the genetic instructions it takes to grow cilia and found a pattern that looked like the cell cycle.

From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2024

Previous studies had found that a few cell cycle proteins, called cyclins, were active during cilia growth, as well as centrioles, which anchor the two sets of chromosomes during cell division.

From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2024

The centrioles, which hoist the microtubules on which chromosomes are strung for mitosis, are similar separate creatures; when not busy with mitosis, they become the basal bodies to which cilia are attached.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas