About halfway through, the microtubules wind around each other, producing a directionality that was consistent across all cilia analyzed. Its effect on cilia function remains unclear, Hughes noted. By ...

PEG had surrounded the microtubules, forcing them to gather together into bundles. They were now behaving like cilia, the hair-like structures that extend from the surface of cells. The whip-like ...

To study the movement of cilia, Louis Woodhams and Phil Bayly’s team built a model that was an approximation of the structure of the flagellar axoneme, the bundle of microtubules that make up ...

Motile cilia are composed of stable populations of microtubules called doublet microtubules. There is a large subset of proteins that localize on the inside of these microtubules that we hypothesize ...

Dysfunctions of the tiny cell processes (primary cilia) of the pancreatic beta cells could be a cause of type 2 diabetes.