hair-like organelle protruding from the cell surface that transmits cellular signals. Cilia are important for regulating cellular processes, but because of their small size and number, it has been ...

The cells that make up the walls of the finest of all lymphatic vessels have a lobate, oak leaf-like shape that makes them ...

However, again to the scientists’ surprise, the cilia on pancreatic cells deviated from this expected arrangement and had eight outer microtubule doublets and a central microtubule doublet or singlet.

Prachee Avasthi took a winding path to specializing in studying cilia—the hairlike appendages that enable cells to move about and sense their environments. During her undergraduate days at the ...

In a study published Jan. 29 in Science Advances, the researchers showed that special blood vessel-forming cells they developed, called "reprogrammed vascular endothelial cells" (R-VECs), can ...