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cilia

[sil-ee-uh] / ˈsɪl i ə /


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"AI was not used to generate the experimental movie, the cilia, or their motion," he said.

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

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

His cilia are not cilia at all, but individual spirochetes, and at the base of attachment of each spirochete is an oval organelle, embedded in the myxotricha membrane, which is a bacterium.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

The study examines how a particular signaling pathway within the cells' antennae, known as the primary cilium, affects heart development during embryonic development.

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

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 of these had a body shaped like a pear, the small end being slightly incurved and produced into a long curved filament, or cilium, of extreme tenuity.

From Discourses Biological and Geological Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley




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