Algae are the new delivery drivers: they are tiny enough to float in inhalable liquid particles and travel deep inside the ...

Then it has to escape the mucus in our windpipes that capture particles, which are then swept out by tiny hairs called cilia ... whiplike structures called flagella, they have some limited ...

These structures are highly conserved across species, from single-celled protists to humans, and are composed of a core microtubule-based structure known as the axoneme. Cilia and flagella are ...

The structure of the sperm flagella is similar to the ultrastructure of cilia, accounting for the common association of male infertility with PCD while women with PCD can be subfertile due to impaired ...

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2418938122 The researchers envision new medical devices featuring cilia on the inner and outer walls that, using ultrasound activation through the skin, will generate an ...

Researchers from ETH Zurich, the University of Bern and Bern University Hospital have developed a non-invasive cleaning technology: microscopic cilia on the stent surface are activated by ultrasound ...

Covering stents with hairlike structures called cilia may help keep the implanted medical tubes clean, preventing infection, researchers report April 28 in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...