cilia

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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

Most magnetic cilia make use of 'soft' magnets, which do not generate a magnetic field but become magnetic in the presence of a magnetic field.

From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2024

In other words, they substantially erase the preprogrammed magnetization that was shared by all of the microparticles when the cilia were fabricated.

From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2024

To make the cilia, the researchers introduce the magnetic microparticles into a polymer dissolved in a liquid.

From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2024

Spirochetes, like the ones attached to M. paradoxa, joined up and became the cilia of eukaryotic cells.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas