Many cells in our body have a single primary cilium, a micrometer-long, hair-like organelle protruding from the cell surface that transmits cellular signals. Cilia are important for regulating ...

These solitary and apparently nonfunctional cilia are far more widespread than the motile type. For example, in humans, only a few cell types have motile cilia, namely sperm, epithelia cells in ...

I thought I was just tired. These things were not supposed to move. —Jing Hughes, Washington University in St. Louis Intrigued, Hughes and colleagues imaged pancreatic cilia under many different ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Inside the human airway, a certain cell type reigns supreme: multiciliated cells, decorated with dozens of hair-like cilia all beating in tandem.

but this requires that all cilia in a tissue orient the same way. Earlier studies indicated that both planar cell polarity (PCP) signalling and cilia-generated fluid flows could influence ciliary ...

Soneral's research interests include cell motility and the cytoskeleton and regulation of motor proteins in cilia/flagellar assembly. K.M. Cooper, P.A.G Soneral, and S.E. Brownell. 2017. Define your ...