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
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
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
Magnetic cilia -- artificial hairs whose movement is powered by embedded magnetic particles -- have been around for a while, and are of interest for applications in soft robotics, transporting objects and mixing liquids.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2024
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 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
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
They also have a single, nonmotile cilium that responds to the rate of fluid movement in the tubule.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
In the corkscrew form, Spirillum volitans, each end of the body is produced into a minute hair-like process or cilium, and it is by the lashings of these cilia that the minute organism moves about.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various
