The Neurons Aren't Getting Pase

Researchers looked at how each silium pushed and pulled on its neighbors as it interacted with the surface. Small perturbations in height led to relatively large changes in activity of nearby silia. They could suddenly change their orientation and even switch from a stalled state to a walking one. Stimulating one region led to waves of synchronized cilia orientation that moved through the tissue. Pracoch calls this the dance between elasticity and activity.