fibril

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Every additional fibril allows for more weight to be supported.

From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 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

These findings highlight that fibril reorientation, straightening, stretching, and sliding are crucial mechanisms facilitating whole-disc compression.

From Science Daily • Feb. 13, 2024

The term amyloid describes a particular type of elongated, unbranched protein fibril.

From Nature • Nov. 8, 2016

As the second incision was made, I felt a strange lightning of pain play through the limb, defining every minutest fibril of nerve.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 by Various