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

Unlike the wavy, hairlike cilia you may remember from biology class—the ones that sweep mucus out of the airways—the primary cilia are rigid and didn’t seem to have any useful function. They were ...

A system of artificial cilia capable of monitoring mucus conditions in human airways to better detect infection, airway obstruction, or the severity of diseases like Cystic Fibrosis (CF), Chronic ...

Researchers develop robotic sensory cilia that monitor internal biomarkers to detect and assess airway diseases Date: November 7, 2024 Source: Vanderbilt University Summary: Mechanical engineers ...

The paper, titled "Sensory Artificial Cilia for In Situ Monitoring of Airway Physiological Properties," is published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In their paper ...

Researchers have developed an artificial cilia capable of monitoring mucus conditions in human airways to better detect infection, airway obstruction, or the severity of diseases like cystic fibrosis.

The research was published in the November 4 issue of PNAS in the article, "Sensory Artificial Cilia for In Situ Monitoring of Airway Physiological Properties." In their paper, the researchers ...

Airway cells normally move the mucus they produce through the beating of cilia on the surface of these cells. The researchers found that T2 mucus containing intelectin-1 was not moved well by ...

You do this, he said, with the help of tiny structures on the airways called cilia, which beat 10 times a second — “like little oars” — and sweep mucus up to the throat, where it is ...