fibril

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In their experiments, the researchers found that one fibril with a 19.6 mm2 cross-section could support loads up to 1.56 kg.

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

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

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

But a muscular fibril contracts only under the stimulus of a nervous impulse.

From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by Tyler, John Mason