To shift the focal point from a far to a near target, the ciliary muscle in the human eye increases the dioptric power of the crystalline lens, a process known as accommodation 1. Today’s ...

Cell biology researchers at the Department of Biology at the University of Copenhagen have made a discovery about two ciliary proteins that have previously been linked to diabetes, obesity and kidney ...

Paramecium relies on thousands of motile cilia arranged in longitudinal rows to generate coordinated metachronal waves for propulsion and feeding. Each cilium contains an axoneme anchored at a basal ...

Cilia are small hair-like organelles that extend from cells and perform many functions, including motility and signaling. Researchers have now revealed that cilia have a specialized transport hub at ...

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 ...

Immunofluorescence image of kidney epithelial cells where the cilia are stained with a red antibody and the protein ZDHHC5 is stained with a green antibody. The green and red channels are shifted ...