Countless tiny hairs (cilia) are found on the outer wall of some cells, for example in our lungs or in our brain. When these micrometer-sized hairs coordinate their movement and produce wave-like ...

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill scientists have discovered the human version of a gene and gene product that is an essential component of the tiny hair-like whips called cilia that cleanse ...

The microscopic, hair-like structures called cilia act like the engines of cellular biology. They use a coordinated wave motion to propel bacteria, clean out your lungs and even move eggs from the ...

A new study of a protein found in cilia - the hair-like projections on the cell surface - may help explain how genetic defects in cilia play a role in developmental abnormalities, kidney disease and a ...

A new study of a protein found in cilia - the hair-like projections on the cell surface - may help explain how genetic defects in cilia play a role in developmental abnormalities, kidney disease and a ...

Man has been breathing with lungs for a million years. Men have been studying the lungs’s physiology for nearly 5.000 years. But not until Radiologist Alfred Ernest Barclay* took to blowing bismuth ...

Taking a cue from nature, scientists have shown one way that microscopic, hairlike structures could move liquid through tiny channels in a “lab on a chip” — essentially a miniaturized biology lab ...

Like the tiny organelles used to propel some bacteria, artificial cilia developed by German engineers could someday help deliver drugs. Researchers at Kiel University have built nano-sized ...

Medical concept in the field of nanotechnology. A nanobot studies or kills a virus. 3 d illustration. This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece ...