A team of scientists at MIT and the Collaborative Research Center “Dynamic Hydrogels at Biointerfaces” decided to take the ...

Mussels produce a sort of waterproof glue, which is much more powerful than synthetic adhesives and keeps them from being ...

As such, epithelial cells require robust defence mechanisms to avoid sustaining damage. Secreted mucins are highly glycosylated proteins that form a physical barrier, which protects epithelial ...

Slippery proteins in the brain’s blood vessels form a protective barrier that breaks break down with age, studies in mice ...

Within the animal kingdom, mussels are masters of underwater adhesion. The marine mollusks cluster atop rocks and along the ...

Now, MIT and Freie Universität Berlin engineers have developed a groundbreaking new glue. This innovative adhesive combines the waterproof stickiness of mussel plaques with the germ-resistant ...