cilia

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

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

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

Most magnetic cilia make use of 'soft' magnets, which do not generate a magnetic field but become magnetic in the presence of a 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

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

The shorter cilium vibrates actively, and effects the locomotion of the organism, while the other trails behind; the whole body rolling on its axis with its pointed end forwards.

From Discourses Biological and Geological Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley