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posted by LaminatorX on Thursday January 29 2015, @04:45AM   Printer-friendly
from the fibers-all-the-way-down dept.

A research team from UC Davis and Rice University has discovered a technique that would enable natural proteins to self-assemble into amyloid fibrils. Nature has several instances of self-assembly, and researchers have always been interested in replicating or manipulating these proteins to develop novel and practical materials or devices. The team’s research findings have been published online by the journal ACS Nano.

http://www.azom.com/news.aspx?newsID=43202

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday January 29 2015, @05:21AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday January 29 2015, @05:21AM (#139102) Journal
    Put them together with urea [soylentnews.org]
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
  • (Score: 2) by SlimmPickens on Thursday January 29 2015, @06:33AM

    by SlimmPickens (1056) on Thursday January 29 2015, @06:33AM (#139108)

    You can use grape seed extract to disassemble them.

  • (Score: 1) by nishi.b on Thursday January 29 2015, @11:26AM

    by nishi.b (4243) on Thursday January 29 2015, @11:26AM (#139139)

    Alzheimer disease as well as other brain diseases feature amyloid fibers accumulation in neurons ( Amyloid hypothesis [wikipedia.org] ). So is this really something we want to use ?
    Is this the next asbestos ?

    • (Score: 2) by morgauxo on Thursday January 29 2015, @02:32PM

      by morgauxo (2082) on Thursday January 29 2015, @02:32PM (#139171)

      i came here wondering the same... still am