Wet Fly Silk (IMAGE)
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This picture from a scanning electron microscope, magnified 100 times, shows a mesh of wet adhesive silk ribbon produced by a caddisfly larva to stitch together the inside of its shelter case, made with glass beads it was given in a laboratory aquarium. University of Utah bioengineer Russell Stewart hopes this natural adhesive can be developed into a sticky tape for surgical uses.
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