Using traditional microscopy methods to find and image cilia is like looking for needles in a haystack, and the sample sizes are often too small to draw conclusions. Researchers have gained some ...

The cilia are antenna-like organelles that sense shifts in the extracellular environment and communicate these changes to the intracellular space. Although scientists first identified primary cilia in ...

For a long time, almost all attention was on the motile cilia because their function was readily observable. But scientists, starting with Alexander Kowalevsky had reported the presence of single ...