fibril
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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
With better measurements and images of fibril assemblies, bioengineers can better understand the rules that dictate how protein grammar affects toxicity and biological function, leading to more effective and less toxic therapeutics.
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
These weak, local interactions gain avidity by their summation over thousands of identical copies along the axis 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
