Researchers video and measure tubulin transport in cilia for the first time.

Defective cilia can lead to a host of diseases and conditions in the human body, from rare, inherited bone malformations to blindness, male infertility, kidney disease and obesity. It is known that these tiny cell organelles become deformed and cause these diseases because of a problem related to their assembly, which requires the translocation of vast quantities of the vital cell protein tubulin. What they … Continue reading Researchers video and measure tubulin transport in cilia for the first time.