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Inspired by slug slime, scientists have developed a flexible adhesive that sticks to wet surfaces. This stretchy glue can be attached to a beating, bleeding heart and could someday replace stitches in wound repair.

Other commercially available glues create strong but inflexible bonds or stretchy but weak connections. The slug-inspired glue cements tightly and it is held together by a stretchy matrix.

The sticking power of this adhesive is “probably on the order of 10 times better than what’s currently on the market,” said Phillip Messersmith, a professor of bioengineering at the University of California at Berkeley, who was not involved with a study of the substance that was published Thursday in the journal Science.

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(Jianya Li, Adam D. Celiz and David J. Mooney)

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/07/27/stretchy-glue-inspired-by-slugs-could-be-the-future-of-sutures/?utm_term=.bf8a900374cb

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