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cilia

[sil-ee-uh] / ˈsɪl i ə /


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By combining high speed imaging with three dimensional reconstructions of more than 1,000 cells, the researchers showed how networks of fused neurons coordinate the beating of cilia on different parts of the animal's body.

From Science Daily Mar. 6, 2026

They captured them at different stages of maturity, hoping to glimpse the genetic instructions it takes to grow cilia and found a pattern that looked like the cell cycle.

From Science Daily Jun. 6, 2024

In the lungs, their cilia sway back and forth to keep fluids like mucus from collecting.

From Science Daily Jun. 6, 2024

Only a few previous magnetic cilia have made use of 'hard' magnets, which are capable of producing their own magnetic field.

From Science Daily Apr. 24, 2024

We are the delicate part, transient and vulnerable as cilia.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

Scientists have long known that abnormalities in a structure on kidney cells, or the primary cilium, cause cysts to form in kidneys.

From Science Daily Apr. 8, 2024

The reason for this daytime-induced enhanced healing process appears to be from the relationship the 24-hour cycle has on the length of the primary cilium.

From Science Daily Dec. 21, 2023

Once the voltage is reversed, the oxygen is driven out of the platinum—and the cilium returns to its original shape.

From Scientific American Jul. 11, 2022

He points out that Dogic's group created something that looks and acts very much like a cilium or flagellum with its multitude of proteins — but that may, in fact, work very differently.

From Nature Jan. 4, 2016

The small end, however, is not produced into one long cilium, but the general surface of the body is covered with small actively vibrating ciliary organs, which are only longest at the small end.

From Discourses Biological and Geological Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley




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