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.

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 ...

Sometimes it makes too much, and the cilia on the airways can’t push ... Researchers can then add bacteria and observe how they move through the mucus and how mucins interact with them.

coli bacteria utilize a corkscrew-like motion, cilia move in synchronized waves ... used for drug transportation through ...

There are hairlike cilia on top of the lung cells that actively wave, Oliver explains. The waving of the cilia acts like a conveyor belt to move mucus out of the lung to be cleared in your throat, and ...

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 ...

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 ...