By reexamining 3D images used to map the connections between brain cells, researchers are uncovering new information about a small, elusive, and often overlooked cellular appendage.

Neurons may get all the glory, but they would be nothing without glial cells. While brain cells do the heavy lifting in the ...

Recent studies have significantly advanced our understanding of cilia biology and the mechanisms underlying ciliopathies. For instance, research has revealed the intricate architecture of the ...

For a long time, almost all attention was on the motile cilia because their function was readily observable. But scientists, starting with Alexander Kowalevsky had reported the presence of single ...

Instead, they grew a bunch of cilia. To figure out what might be driving these differences ... Maggie Chen is a scientist and science journalist covering health, biology, and bioengineering. She ...

The goal of my research is to understand the biogenesis of centrioles/centrosomes and primary cilia, and how defects in these processes affect mammalian cell physiology and evoke stress responses.

Every month, an ovum (egg) develops and becomes mature, and is released from an ovary. The cilia waft the ovum along inside the oviduct and into the uterus.