A team of scientists, led by Dr. Helen Willsey from University of California, San Francisco, U.S., discovered that tiny hair-like structures called cilia, found on the surface of almost every cell, ...

Stanford researchers discovered that dialing down an overactive enzyme, LRRK2, can regrow lost cellular “antennae” in key ...

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Inhibiting an overabundant enzyme saved a key component of a brain signaling pathway that is vital for motor control in a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Dr. Zhang's team found that GPR45 serves as a transporter, moving a protein known as Gαs from the cell's interior into primary cilia, where it switches on MC4R to control appetite.

The cilia of the lower respiratory tract are in constant motion, day and night, sweeping the overlying blanket of mucus toward the upper end of the esophagus.

Cilia are tiny, hair-like structures that trap viruses and debris and sweep them out of your airways. They're one of your body’s main defenses against infection.