Cilia bent out of shape over dysfunctional astrocyte mitochondria

Mitochondrial dysfunction in astrocytes drives neurodegenerative brain pathology. In this issue, Ignatenko et al. (2022. J. Cell. Biol.https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202203019) discover a novel connection between cilia and mitochondria in astrocytes, whereby mitochondrial dysfunction leads to abnormal cilia structure and a motile cilia program.