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
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
As the second incision was made, I felt a strange flash of pain play through the limb, as if it were in every minutest fibril of nerve.
From The Autobiography of a Quack and the Case of George Dedlow by Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir)
