cilia

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 are found in nearly every type of cell and are especially important during embryonic development.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

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

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

From Science Daily ● Jun. 6, 2024

Spirochetes, like the ones attached to M. paradoxa, joined up and became the cilia of eukaryotic cells.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

Together, the patient genetics and experimental findings pointed to the primary cilium as an important part of the process that may contribute to congenital heart defects.

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

Running a low positive voltage through a cilium triggers a chemical reaction: as a droplet of test fluid flows past, the electrified platinum breaks apart the water molecules within the droplet.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 11, 2022

They also have a single, nonmotile cilium that responds to the rate of fluid movement in the tubule.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

In the corkscrew form, Spirillum volitans, each end of the body is produced into a minute hair-like process or cilium, and it is by the lashings of these cilia that the minute organism moves about.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various