Researchers have identified a structural protein that is essential for the coordinated beating of millions of tiny cilia on the surface of comb jellies. When the protein was eliminated, the cilia ...

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 ...

Tsukuba, Japan—The rainbow of moving lights seen along the sides of comb jellies is one of the most mesmerizing sights in the ocean. Now, researchers from Japan have discovered a protein that controls ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Cilia and flagella are ideal model organelles in which to study the general question of organelle size control. Flagellar microtubules are ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. During a dive off the coast of Southern California in 1979, ...

Cilia have got to be some of the most amazing molecular motors found in cells. The means of locomotion of many a cell and a way of moving things around others, cilia are composed of microtubules, ...

Paramecium and certain other microbes move through liquid by whipping back and forth hairlike appendages known as cilia. Scientists have now developed a new type of synthetic cilia, which could find ...

Shimoda, Japan - Researchers from the University of Tsukuba's Shimoda Marine Research Center and the Japanese National Institute for Basic Biology have identified a protein that keeps millions of tiny ...