Microscopic command centers in our bodies called primary cilia—once thought irrelevant—could be hidden switches powering cancer growth and drug resistance, new research reveals. The review ...

Cilia are also in other organs like your brain and reproductive tract. As a result, people with Kartagener syndrome may experience problems with fluid on the brain and infertility. In men ...

men are often the cause of the infertility. A new study recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) corrects a 150-year-old concept ...

Now, researchers are pointing to the dysfunction of cilia, microscopic antennas of cells, essential for receiving and processing vital signals. In 2016, an international consortium led in Belgium ...

But together, these structures routinely pull off biological marvels within the body. Cilia remove inhaled pathogens from the respiratory tract, carry cerebrospinal fluid across brain cavities ...

Within this organizer, motile cilia, hair-like structures on the cell surfaces, beat rapidly to create a leftward directional flow of extracellular fluid, which is the first outward sign of a left ...

One study even found that e-cigarettes suppress immune cells in your nose. They also destroy the cilia in your lungs. Cilia are tiny, hair-like structures that trap viruses and debris and sweep ...

Published in Nature Communications, the study describes how two key proteins allow glial cells to actively monitor the hair-like cilia that extend out of nematode dendrites, so that the glial ...

Within this organizer, motile cilia, hair-like structures on the cell surfaces, beat rapidly to create a leftward directional flow of extracellular fluid, which is the first outward sign of a left ...