About 10 in 100 people are left-handed, but why? A new article highlights the crucial role of early brain development for ...

Building the inner structure of motile cilia: Motile cilia are structures ... Paracchini S. Genetics of human handedness: microtubules and beyond. Trends Genet. 2025 Feb 1:S0168-9525(25)00006 ...

Surprisingly, recent studies have shown that different septins had distinct localizations in motile cilia of human respiratory epithelial cells (Fliegauf et al., 2014). Some septins were found both at ...

Strengths: The authors convincingly showed the importance of DNAH12 in assembling cilia and flagella in both human and mouse sperm ... include basic sperm characterizations (concentration, motility), ...

the function in cilia could help clarify the unexplained role of XAP5 mutations in causing XLID. The possibility that XAP5 could be a ciliary transcription factor in humans would add XLID to the ...

Cilia are outgrowths of the plasma membrane of eukaryotic cells that contain a specialised cytoskeleton. Motile cilia are present on multiciliated cells and use this cytoskeleton to move fluid ...

Dec. 5, 2024 — A new study suggests that the fundamental abilities underlying human language and technological culture may have evolved before humans and apes ... A Fossil First: Scientists Find ...

"A world in which human wages crash from AI — logically, necessarily — is a world in which productivity growth goes through the roof, and prices for goods and services crash to near zero ...

For the many wondrous things humans can do, we can't fly on our own. But if we could, how big would our wings be? Of course, the answer depends on the person's size. But someone who's about 155 ...

In the race to build the best humanoid robots, China is quite literally ahead of the pack. As the South China Morning Post reports, the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area — or E ...

To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. The story of how humans evolved is a long and winding one — and it grows more complicated with each passing year. Discoveries in the past two ...