It’s based on slime secreted by a species of slug as a defence mechanism.
Humans have slugs to thank for a possible medical breakthrough.
Scientists are developing a medical super-glue that they claim can seal wounds in damaged organs and is as strong as natural cartilage.
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Bizarrely, the material is based on the properties of a mucus secreted by a species of European slug, the Dusky Arion.
Professor Donald Ingber, founding director of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering in the US, said: ‘Nature has frequently already found elegant solutions to common problems; it’s… Read the full story
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