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    Artificial cilia exhibit spontaneous beating

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    Researchers have created artificial cilia that wave like the real thing. Zvonimir Dogic and his Brandeis University colleagues combined just a few cilia proteins to create cilia that are able to wave and sweep material around--although more slowly and simply than real ones. The researchers are using the lab-made cilia to study how the structures coordinate their movements and what happens when they don't move properly. Featured in the August 18, 2011, issue of Biomedical Beat.
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    Internal NoteFrom: Timothy Sanchez [mailto:tsanchez@brandeis.edu] Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 10:33 AM To: Carlson, Emily (NIH/NIGMS) [E] Subject: cilia-like bundles high res images. Hello Emily, I am writing in response to the request you made to my PI, Zvonimir, for high res images of the beating bundles. I'm including the tiff stack, in case you want to rearrange the images, and also the 8x1 montage. Let me know if you need anything else, and thanks for covering our work. Best, Tim Sanchez *** Hi Dr. Dogic, We previously featured your work on the artificial cilia model in the NIGMS Biomedical Beat e-newsletter. We?d now like to feature it in an article on cilia for our Inside Life Science series. We?d like to include the still image that accompanied the Brandeis news release. If there are no copyright restrictions against using the image and you give us permission to feature it, please send me the highest resolution version you have and let me know who to credit. Would it also be OK if we add this to our collection of interesting research-related images? When we post images and videos in this gallery, we grant users permission to use them for educational, news media, or research purposes, provided that users credit the source of the image, i.e. you or whomever you indicate. Here is the brief description of your work for the cilia article, if you?re interested: ?Now, cilia can even be artificial. Zvonimir Dogic and his Brandeis University colleagues combined just a few cilia proteins to create cilia that are able to wave and sweep material around?although more slowly and simply than real ones. The researchers are using the lab-made cilia to study how the structures coordinate their movements and what happens when they don?t move properly.? Emily Emily Carlson Office of Communications and Public Liaison National Institute of General Medical Sciences www.nigms.nih.gov Phone:(301) 594-1515 Fax: (301) 402-0224 carlsone@nigms.nih.gov http://publications.nigms.nih.gov/biobeat/11-08-18/#1
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    SourceZvonimir Dogic
    Date2012-06-27 00:00:00
    Credit LineZvonimir Dogic Lab, Brandeis University
    InvestigatorZvonimir Dogic
    Record TypePhotograph
    Topic Area(s);#Molecular Structures;#
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