fibril

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Their image of these fibril assemblies made the cover of the ACS Nano and was put together by first author Weiyan Zhou, who color-coded the image based on where the Nile reds were pointing.

From Science Daily • Apr. 26, 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

These findings highlight that fibril reorientation, straightening, stretching, and sliding are crucial mechanisms facilitating whole-disc compression.

From Science Daily • Feb. 13, 2024

The backbone amide hydrogen bonds maintain the β-strands at a spacing of 4.8 Å in the direction of the fibril.

From Nature • Nov. 8, 2016

Fī′bril, a small fibre; one of the extremely minute threads composing an animal fibre; Fibril′la, a fibril, filament.—n.pl.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various