fibril

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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

Their highly sustainable new method is based on a protein fibril sponge, which the scientists derive from whey, a food industry byproduct.

From Science Daily • Feb. 29, 2024

Secondary nucleation processes, including fibril fragmentation and nucleus formation induced at the amyloid fibril surface69, 70, 136, are of particular relevance to the kinetics of fibril growth.

From Nature • Nov. 8, 2016

But a muscular fibril contracts only under the stimulus of a nervous impulse.

From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by Tyler, John Mason