cilia

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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

And hundreds of centrioles, intended for eventual construction of cilia at the cell surface, got stuck in the cell body.

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

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