fibril
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Each fibril had to be carefully designed -- larger fibrils had weaker adhesion, while the smaller fibrils were hard to fabricate and prone to collapse and degradation.
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
A new imaging technique developed by engineers at Washington University in St. Louis can give scientists a much closer look at fibril assemblies, stacks of peptides like amyloid beta, most notably associated with Alzheimer's disease.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 26, 2024
The backbone amide hydrogen bonds maintain the β-strands at a spacing of 4.8 Å in the direction of the fibril.
From Nature ● Nov. 8, 2016
Then why this fibril anxiety never to be long beyond call?
From Out of the Ashes by Ethel Watts Mumford
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