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 ...

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 ...

In turn, they are fodder for fish and insect larvae. The cilia that allow them to swim are located mainly around their mouth and can also be used to sweep food particles into their muscular pharynx, ...

Cilia drive fluid flow in development and physiology, but this requires that all cilia in a tissue orient the same way. Earlier studies indicated that both planar cell polarity (PCP) signalling ...