cilia

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Previous studies had found that a few cell cycle proteins, called cyclins, were active during cilia growth, as well as centrioles, which anchor the two sets of chromosomes during cell division.

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

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

Controlling the magnetic polarization -- or magnetization -- allows you to essentially dictate precisely how the cilia will flex when an external magnetic field is applied.

From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2024

His cilia are not cilia at all, but individual spirochetes, and at the base of attachment of each spirochete is an oval organelle, embedded in the myxotricha membrane, which is a bacterium.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas