Glue, Fly, Glue: Underwater Silk for Surgical Sutures?
Sunday, February 28, 2010 - 23:42
in Biology & Nature
Like silkworm moths, butterflies and spiders, caddisfly larvae spin silk, but they do so underwater. Now, University of Utah researchers have discovered why the fly's silk is sticky when wet and how that may make it valuable as an adhesive tape during surgery.