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Cilia drive fluid flow in development and physiology, but this requires that all cilia in a tissue orient the same way. Earlier studies indicated that both planar cell polarity (PCP) signalling ...

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Laboratory of Human Genetics & Therapeutics, Smart Health Initiative, Division of Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering (BESE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST ...

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The question of, “What is consciousness?” is no longer exclusively the realm of ancient philosophers and dorm-room debaters.

Disruption of photoreceptor cilia has been implicated in a variety of retinal diseases, collectively called retinociliopathies, such as Leber congenital amaurosis and retinopathy of prematurity.