But virtually all other cells have a primary cilium. Likewise, for many years it was generally assumed that the entire phylum Nematoda, comprising roundworms, completely lacked cilia or flagella.

Louis. In her lab at Washington University in St. Louis, endocrinologist Jing Hughes studies a peculiar structure that sticks out of the surfaces of human pancreatic islet cells: the primary cilium.

“It’s interesting to think about how cilia function could be important for the general population, [not] just in rare instances of ciliopathies,” he adds. Ciliopathies—rare diseases caused by ...

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have uncovered why some patients with a rare genetic ...

Normal lung tissue is shown on the left. On the right is lung tissue from a person with primary ciliary dyskinesia with a CCDC39 mutation. A large ...

There is a high degree of ciliary specialization, ranging from motile cilia of the respiratory epithelium to primary ...