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Using traditional microscopy methods to find and image cilia is like looking for needles in a haystack, and the sample sizes are often too small to draw conclusions.

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This is because smoking can cause the cilia — the hair-like structures that clear microbes and debris from the nose, sinuses, and lungs — to stop working. This may lead to infections such as ...

Each cilium had a volume of about 0.15 μm 3, which is 5,000 times less than the corresponding cell. Furthermore, each cilia had a surface area of 3.05 μm 2, which is about 200 times less than ...

How cilia move in unison to pump fluid Date: November 9, 2022 Source: Vienna University of Technology Summary: Countless tiny hairs (cilia) are found on the outer wall of some cells, for example ...

Almost every cell in the human body contains these bacteria- sized, hair-like structures, possibly a relic from our unicellular ancestors. Non-motile cilia, which have signal-detecting receptors ...

The researchers envision a cilia-covered chip as the basis of a diagnostic device that could test any sample of water, blood or urine to find contaminants or markers of disease.

Primary cilia are microtubule‐based protrusions of the plasma membrane, which are present on most vertebrate cells. The primary cilium receives environmental stimuli and transduces this information ...