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"You could also imagine finding some of the molecular players that are involved in filopodia and trying to manipulate some of those things to try to restore flexible memory as we age."

From Science Daily • May 6, 2026

"The first thing we saw, which was super bizarre and we didn't expect, was that there were filopodia everywhere," Harnett says.

From Science Daily • May 6, 2026

HIV also takes advantage of tunneling nanotubes to move between cells, and the Marburg virus triggers the growth of filopodia.

From Scientific American • Jul. 20, 2022

Chan, C. E. & Odde, D. J. Traction dynamics of filopodia on compliant substrates.

From Nature • Dec. 5, 2017

“Each time a progenitor cell reaches out and touches a neighbor, both cells pull back their filopodia and try growing in other directions,” Bergles explains.

From Scientific American • Jun. 24, 2013