fibril

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Every additional fibril allows for more weight to be supported.

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

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

From Science Daily • Feb. 13, 2024

In the absence of atomic-level information on mammalian prions, the high-resolution structure of the amyloid of infectious prion HET-s is noteworthy for its further elements of fibril architecture.

From Nature • Nov. 8, 2016

Fī′bril, a small fibre; one of the extremely minute threads composing an animal fibre; Fibril′la, a fibril, filament.—n.pl.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various