Movie comparing Myxococcus xanthus strains with different motility systems: wild type, impaired social motility and impaired adventurous motility. Time-lapse microscopy shows how self-organization ...

The African trypanosome Trypanosoma brucei is a unicellular pathogen that causes lethal sleeping sickness in humans, which is a devastating and neglected tropical disease that is endemic to vast ...

A new way to measure male fertility has been discovered by researchers at the University of Waterloo, opening the door to the development of simple, inexpensive tests for clinical and at-home use. The ...

Research by Milena Bogunovic, MD, Ph.D., associate professor of pathology, sheds light on how inflammation in the ...

Some of the most intractable gastrointestinal disorders, such as irritable bowel syndrome and inflammatory bowel disease, are motility disorders, where the contents of the intestines don’t proceed ...

The ability of sperm to swim effectively is consistent no matter the country and highest in summer no matter the climate ...

Until now, a pathogen’s ability to move through the body has been overlooked as a possible trigger of immune response, but new research has found that motility will indeed alarm the host and activate ...

A study by scientists at Harvard Medical School and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has revealed how a pressure-sensitive protein, PIEZO1, helps regulate intestinal motility and control ...

Esophageal motility disorders occur more frequently among adults aged 75 years and older. Individuals aged 75 years and older have a higher prevalence of esophageal motility disorders, particularly ...