cilia

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

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

Researchers have now demonstrated a technique for creating magnetic cilia that can be "reprogrammed," changing their magnetic properties at room temperature to change the motion of the cilia as needed.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2024

To do that, the researchers first embed the cilia in ice, which fixes all of the cilia in the desired direction.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 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

Scientists have long known that abnormalities in a structure on kidney cells, or the primary cilium, cause cysts to form in kidneys.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 8, 2024

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

One tiny flick of a microscopic cellular hair, known as a cilium, can’t do much on its own.

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