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

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

However, an important consideration is the extent to which the structures of amyloid fibrils generated from segments of amyloid-forming proteins represent the fibril structures that are formed by their full-length parent proteins31.

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