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"Autophagy is more effective at handling larger protein clumps," says study leader Luo.

When enough of these pebbles clump together, they can collapse under their own weight to form asteroid-sized rocks, which hoover up the material around them until they’ve grown into full-sized planets.

When tau becomes misfolded, it starts clumping together into long, fibrous aggregates known as fibrils.

Prior to “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” most were willing to brush clumps of cigarette ash off of cardigan sweaters and, at most, bail a lover out of jail.

The term microclots, recently adopted in the scientific literature, refers to abnormal clumps of blood clotting proteins circulating in a patient's blood stream.