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
The resulting tissue contained multiple cell types found in the human airway, including mucus producing cells and cells with cilia.
From Science Daily • Jan. 22, 2026
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
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
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
