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 ...

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 ...

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 ...