fibril

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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

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

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

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

From Out of the Ashes by Mumford, Ethel Watts