In the lung cell, the door opens and closes to let small molecules and water in and out, in order to keep the cells healthy.” There are hairlike cilia on top of the lung cells that actively wave, ...

Researchers from Vanderbilt University have developed a system of artificial cilia that can reportedly monitor mucus ...

and lung cancer. Xiaoguang Dong, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, is leading a team of researchers that has developed a system of artificial cilia capable of monitoring mucus ...

For a long time, almost all attention was on the motile cilia because their function was readily observable. But scientists, starting with Alexander Kowalevsky had reported the presence of single ...

Cilia inside the lung-chip. Microscope image courtesy of Emulate, Inc. The organ-chip consists of transparent channels lined with thousands of living cells and pumped with liquid containing ...

Cilia are small hairs which beat to push the mucus back up the trachea so it can be swallowed and destroyed in the stomach. Clean air then enters the two bronchi, one bronchus going to each lung.