A group of rare diseases called ciliopathies — polycystic kidney disease notable among them — emerge from defects in cilia. These are the tiny hairlike structures on the surface of almost every cell ...

Almost every eukaryotic cell type has cilia—tiny hairlike structures—on their surface. But, the function of cilia is not well understood. Now, researchers show that human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs ...

Many cells in our body have a single primary cilium, a micrometer-long, hair-like organelle protruding from the cell surface that transmits cellular signals. Cilia are important for regulating ...

Jing Hughes, an endocrinologist at Washington University in St. Louis, was working late in the lab recently, imaging cilia in mouse pancreatic beta cells. These cilia, which are tiny hairlike ...

Primary cilia are sensory organelles present on the cell surface; however, their physical structure has not been defined due to technical reasons. A new PNAS study examined primary cilia in human ...

Cellular hairs ? cilia ? play a role in nearly every sense, even touch. Johns Hopkins McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine and colleagues are currently testing genetically engineered mice ...

Many cells in our body have a single primary cilium, a micrometer-long, hair-like organelle protruding from the cell surface that transmits cellular signals. Cilia are important for regulating ...