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

In addition, the scientists plan to investigate whether they can manufacture the protein fibril sponges out of other protein-rich byproducts or waste products from the food industry.

From Science Daily • Feb. 29, 2024

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

From Science Daily • Feb. 13, 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

The pileus is moist, not viscid, smooth or sprinkled with a whitish superficial fibril, flesh changing color when dry, and rather thin.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha