Question: what unuasual things have you discovered in different tissues

Millie Race answered on 19 Dec 2025:

This is a great question! One of the main discoveries in my PhD was finding that this protein called myosin was active in the brain cells in a part of the cell called the cilia. This is a tiny antennae that the cell uses to reach out into its environment and sense chemical signals from the surrounding cells. Myosin is inside the cell and is involved in making the skeleton of the cell so helping it to move and change shape. So finding this protein myosin active at the cilia in cells in the brain was completely new! I think what it means is that the cilia is connected to the skeleton of the cell which helps it to be stable and properly receive the signals from its environment. I found this out using antibodies that bind to myosin, and that is what the company I work for now make. So my work now is helping scientists make new discoveries in tissues.