fibril

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Every additional fibril allows for more weight to be supported.

From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2024

These cross-β fibril assemblies are also useful building blocks within designer biomaterials for medical applications, but their resemblance to their amyloid beta cousins, whose tangles are a symptom of neurodegenerative disease, is concerning.

From Science Daily • Apr. 26, 2024

A new imaging technique developed by engineers at Washington University in St. Louis can give scientists a much closer look at fibril assemblies, stacks of peptides like amyloid beta, most notably associated with Alzheimer's disease.

From Science Daily • Apr. 26, 2024

In the absence of atomic-level information on mammalian prions, the high-resolution structure of the amyloid of infectious prion HET-s is noteworthy for its further elements of fibril architecture.

From Nature • Nov. 8, 2016

Then why this fibril anxiety never to be long beyond call?

From Out of the Ashes by Mumford, Ethel Watts