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
And hundreds of centrioles, intended for eventual construction of cilia at the cell surface, got stuck in the cell body.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 6, 2024
For this work, the researchers created magnetic cilia consisting of a polymer embedded with magnetic microparticles.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2024
Only a few previous magnetic cilia have made use of 'hard' magnets, which are capable of producing their own magnetic field.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2024
We are the delicate part, transient and vulnerable as cilia.
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
The primary cilium is an internally dynamic structure, packed with proteins that detect and convey important messages to its cell about the local environment. “The signaling machinery is concentrated in the cilia,” Witman says.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 10, 2014
They also have a single, nonmotile cilium that responds to the rate of fluid movement in the tubule.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
In animals, the familiar type is that of a small, more or less ovoid head, with a delicate threadlike cilium, or tail.
From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section S by Project Gutenberg
