Publication Date:
2016-06-30
Description:
A tankful of wriggling proto-fish could one day offer a novel kind of strong, flexible material for buttressing bulletproof vests and reinforcing lightweight automobile parts. Jawless, spineless hagfish might seem an unlikely source for such advances. But the ancient animals, it turns out, exude a slime with extraordinary properties that...
Keywords:
Inner Workings
Print ISSN:
0027-8424
Electronic ISSN:
1091-6490
Topics:
Biology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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