Together, these findings provide new insights and raise new questions about how these differences and locations affect cilia function, Ott says. "We know that diseases that involve cilia can have ...

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 ...

Biological cells often possess thin, hair-like protrusions on their surface known as cilia, which serve various functions ranging from movement to sensing environmental signals. Researchers from ...