{"id":173141,"date":"2023-09-29T21:27:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T02:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/new-model-describes-synchronized-cilia-movement-driven-by-border-regions"},"modified":"2023-09-29T21:27:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T02:27:47","slug":"new-model-describes-synchronized-cilia-movement-driven-by-border-regions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/new-model-describes-synchronized-cilia-movement-driven-by-border-regions","title":{"rendered":"New model describes synchronized cilia movement driven by border regions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-model-describes-synchronized-cilia-movement-driven-by-border-regions2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What do the crowd at a football stadium, the feet of a centipede, and the inside of your lungs have in common? All of these systems show the same specific kind of organization, as recently discovered by a group of scientists from MPI-DS.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/crowd\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">crowd<\/a> wave in a stadium looks like a pattern traveling across the tiers. Similarly, the legs of a centipede move in canon with illusory waves sweeping along its entire length. On a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/microscopic+level\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">microscopic level<\/a>, tiny hairs in our lungs called <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/cilia\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cilia<\/a> wave together to transport mucus. This serves as a first line of defense against invading pathogens.<\/p>\n<p>To create a synchronized and efficient wave, cilia need to accurately coordinate their beating motion. Unlike <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/football+fans\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">football fans<\/a> watching their <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/neighbors\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">neighbors<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/nervous+system\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">nervous system<\/a> coordinating the centipede\u2019s legs, cilia have no such intelligent control system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do the crowd at a football stadium, the feet of a centipede, and the inside of your lungs have in common? All of these systems show the same specific kind of organization, as recently discovered by a group of scientists from MPI-DS. The crowd wave in a stadium looks like a pattern traveling across [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}