Scientists have discovered a previously unrecognized way that human airways protect lungs from infection—through the action of cilia, tiny hair-like structures lining the respiratory tract.

An international team of researchers, led by the University of Exeter, have been awarded a Wellcome Discovery Award grant of ...

Human Respiratory System: Anatomy, Cilia, and Mucus Membrane Function. Posted: March 6, 2025 | Last updated: March 6, 2025. The film discusses the anatomical and functional significance of the ...

Microstructure of cilia: Structure, protein elements critical to human function, disease uncovered. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2014 / 06 ...

Primary cilia are sensory organelles present on the cell surface; however, their physical structure has not been defined due to technical reasons. A new PNAS study examined primary cilia in human ...

Scientists have created tiny living robots from human cells that can move around in a lab dish and may one day be able to help heal wounds or damaged tissue, according to a new study.. A team at ...

Cilia, the little "hairs" attached to almost all cells of the human body, play a role in various cellular functions and cause diseases called ciliopathies when they are defective. Researchers from ...

Modelling ciliopathy phenotypes in human tissues derived from pluripotent stem cells with genetically ablated cilia. Nature Biomedical Engineering , 2022; 6 (4): 463 DOI: 10.1038/s41551-022-00880 ...

But he is unimpressed that the human cell clusters can “swim” with their cilia. That, he says, is pretty much inevitable if you have beating cilia once the spheroids are freed from the gel matrix.

Although scientists first identified primary cilia in human pancreatic islets 60 years ago and know that dysfunction of cilia affects the development and function of the pancreas, there are still many ...

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Background Primary cilia are non-motile sensory cytoplasmic organelles that are involved in cell cycle progression. Ultrastructurally, the primary cilium region is complex, with normal ...