Carnegie Mellon scientists create AggreBots, tiny lung-cell robots powered by cilia with controlled motility.Word excerpt: ...

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have created a bio-hybrid robot by using human lung cells. The biological robots ...

A brand-new engineering approach to generate "designer" biological robots using human lung cells is underway in Carnegie ...

Some see a finger. Others, a worm. Scientists often call it an antenna. This tiny structure, sticking out from the surface of ...

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 ...

The determination of left and right in the body plan is achieved by fluid flow in vertebrate embryos 1 with a few exceptions 2. In the mouse embryo, breaking of left–right (L–R) symmetry is triggered ...

Human bodies have some built-in systems to care for themselves. The cells that line our lungs, nose, brain and reproductive system have cilia, which are tiny, hair-like structures designed to sweep ...

Cilia -- tiny, hair-like fibers -- are widely present in nature. Single-celled paramecia use one set of cilia for locomotion and another set to sweep nutrients into their oral grooves. Researchers ...

Now, in a recently published Journal of Cell Biology paper, scientists used a newer electron microscopy technique, called volume electron microscopy (vEM), to examine how primary cilia on developing ...

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 ...

Cell biology researchers at the Department of Biology at the University of Copenhagen have made a discovery about two ciliary ...