cilia
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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
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
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
For this work, the researchers created magnetic cilia consisting of a polymer embedded with magnetic microparticles.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 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
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
They also have a single, nonmotile cilium that responds to the rate of fluid movement in the tubule.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Behind this, from the concave side of the incurvation, proceeded another long cilium, so delicate as to be discernible only by the use of the highest powers and careful management of the light.
From Discourses Biological and Geological Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley
