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
Their highly sustainable new method is based on a protein fibril sponge, which the scientists derive from whey, a food industry byproduct.
From Science Daily • Feb. 29, 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
As the second incision was made, I felt a strange flash of pain play through the limb, as if it were in every minutest fibril of nerve.
From The Autobiography of a Quack and the Case of George Dedlow by Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir)