cilia
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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
Experiments in zebrafish, along with detailed studies of cilia in other tissues, suggested that the same cellular mechanism may contribute to the development of several organs.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
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
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
We are the delicate part, transient and vulnerable as cilia.
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 primary cilium is a microscopic antenna-like structure that projects from the surface of most cells.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
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
But almost all human cells also have one primary, or nonmotile, cilium that functions more like a molecular antenna.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 10, 2014
D. A motile rodlet with one cilium and with a spore formed inside.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various
