Researchers have developed a new optical coherence tomography (OCT) approach that can directly image coordination of tiny hair-like structures known as motile cilia in their natural environment. The ...

The researchers' findings, reported in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, which involve radial spoke 3 (RS3), help answer some fundamental questions about how motile cilia work and could ...

In recent years, researchers have been learning more about why cellular antennas called cilia are so important. Cilia can act as sensors of the cell's environment and can send and receive signals.

A team led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers has uncovered the atomic structure of a protein complex pivotal to the function of motile cilia, the hair-like structures extending from the ...

August – New funding! Our MPI NIH R01 study “Revealing cilia function in the human fallopian tubes” with the University of Arizona (MPI: Jennifer Barton and Irina Larina) has been funded for 5 years.

Researchers studied the larvae of the marine rag worm Platynereis, and  used whole-body high-speed imaging to examine the ...

The film discusses the anatomical and functional significance of the nose, throat, and ears from a medical perspective. It explains how the nose functions as an air passage that warms and filters ...

A pellicular complex associated with the somatic, oral, and anterior ventral field cilia is revealed clearly by scanning electron microscopy in pre-reproductive (precystic) swimming individuals of the ...