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

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

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

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

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