A UCLA study shows for the first time how microscopic crystals form sound and gravity sensors inside the inner ear. Located at the ends of cilia — tiny cellular hairs in the ear that move and transmit ...

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 conditions in human airways ...

Little is understood about how cilia, the tiny hairlike organelles that in humans are often the first lines of defense against pathogens in our lungs and respiratory tracks and even help push sperm ...

Man has been breathing with lungs for a million years. Men have been studying the lungs’s physiology for nearly 5.000 years. But not until Radiologist Alfred Ernest Barclay* took to blowing bismuth ...

Your lungs naturally cleanse themselves with mucus and cilia. Supporting this process involves avoiding irritants and incorporating practices like controlled coughing, steam therapy, and ...

Researchers model interactions between unique fluids and tiny structures. Specialized stringy fluids flow through the human joints and help constitute substances such as mucus. These fluids contain ...