Primary cilia are important sensory organelles that play a role in cell signaling and development. “Sometimes people think of [primary cilium] as an antenna because they are coated in receptors and ...

New research by Sumeda Nandadasa, PhD, reveals how a key protein associated with Meckel-Gruber syndrome, nephronophthisis, ...

New research by Sumeda Nandadasa, Ph.D., reveals how a key protein associated with Meckel-Gruber syndrome, nephronophthisis, ...

Revealing new biology. Cilia are notoriously difficult to study. In brain cells, a single cilium, only tens of microns long, extends from a cell's surface into a jumble of other cells.Using ...

The results of experiments in mice models were "astounding," said biochemist Suzanne Pfeffer of Stanford University.

video: 3D rendering of an excitatory neuron cell and cilium. view more . Credit: Ott and Torres et al. By reexamining 3D images used to map the connections between brain cells, researchers are ...

Putting the brakes on an enzyme might rescue neurons that are dying due to a type of Parkinson's disease that's caused by a ...

J ing Hughes, an endocrinologist at Washington University in St. Louis, was working late in the lab recently, imaging cilia in mouse pancreatic beta cells.These cilia, which are tiny hairlike ...

A new study from Stanford Medicine has found that stopping an overactive enzyme in the brain might help protect and even ...

In a recent study led by Daniel Ahmed, Professor of Acoustic Robotics at ETH Zurich, and Francesco Clavica from the ARTORG Center at the University of Bern, the interdisciplinary team mimicked the ...