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 ...

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