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

Scientists at UC San Francisco have discovered that cells can also use the cell cycle to control how they sprout hair-like projections called cilia.

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

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

Depending on its position, a cilium can be more effected by its neighbor than vice versa, especially in a dense carpet of cilia as it frequently occurs in nature.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2023

Once the voltage is reversed, the oxygen is driven out of the platinum—and the cilium returns to its original shape.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 11, 2022

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

Each myxamœba is drawn out at one spot into a fine delicate tail or cilium, as at C, D, E, and is capable of a creeping motion in moisture.

From The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition by Sutton and Sons