The defensive mucus of the Arion subfuscus slug has inspired materials scientists trying to invent better medical adhesives. The European slug is average in every way: slimy, brownish, shorter than a ...

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A video showing tough adhesives containing blue or green dyes. Here, it's applied onto a pig heart to show superior adhesion and stretchability performance, as well as being molded into a shape of a ...

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From the slime coating slugs to the saliva in our mouths, many slippery bodily fluids contain mucus. So how did this marvel of biology evolve? In mammals, the answer is many times, and often in a ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Wander through your backyard or walk along a stream and it’s likely you’ll see a snail – small, squishy animals with shells on their backs.

The proteins that make mucus appear to have evolved in at least 15 independent instances in mammals, possibly by co-opting existing proteins into mucus-producers. From the gooey saliva of a dog to the ...

A tough adhesive applied onto a pig heart to show superior adhesion and stretchability performance. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 28, issue of Science, published by AAAS.