Scientists have distinguished the features of nanosized hair-like cellular protrusions by combining fluorescence imaging with a microscopic technique that scans cell surfaces. Yasufumi Takahashi of ...

New research has unraveled the mystery of how microscopic cilia coordinate to move and propel marine creatures through water. Cilia are tiny, hair-like protrusions found in many organisms, including ...

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 ...

Seen through the microscope, a primary cilium (top; green and red) is seen protruding from an fibro/adipogenic progenitor cell (blue). Image by the Jeremy Reiter Lab Like it or not, as we age, our ...

Many people have never heard of cilia, but these tiny appendages that protrude from the surface of most cells have been found to be an essential part of many cellular functions. Researchers want to ...

Cilia -- tiny, hair-like fibers -- are widely present in nature. Single-celled paramecia use one set of cilia for locomotion and another set to sweep nutrients into their oral grooves. Researchers ...

Many a high school biology student has glanced into a microscope to see the planet's smallest animals -- paramecium and the like -- being propelled by the waving, hair-like projections known as ...