fibril

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Each fibril had to be carefully designed -- larger fibrils had weaker adhesion, while the smaller fibrils were hard to fabricate and prone to collapse and degradation.

From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2024

Now, scientists can get a close enough look at fibril assemblies to see there are notable differences in how synthetic peptides stack compared with amyloid beta.

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

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

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

From Out of the Ashes by Mumford, Ethel Watts