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A horseshoe crab on a rock

How Rutgers students are giving horseshoe crabs a fighting chance: BTN LiveBIG

How Rutgers students are giving horseshoe crabs a fighting chance: BTN LiveBIG

Scarlet Knights work hard to save these blue bloods.

An adhesive that works under water and is modeled after those created by shellfish to stick to surfaces has been shown to be stronger than many commercial glues. At left, a live mussel uses its natural adhesive to stick to an aluminum sheet. At right, two pieces of aluminum are bonded together with the new biomimetic polymer modeled after the animal’s adhesive. Also, chemical structures of the mussel protein and the synthetic polymer are shown.

A Purdue professor explores the sticky side of sea creatures: BTN LiveBIG

A Purdue professor explores the sticky side of sea creatures: BTN LiveBIG

Buffeted by the surf, mighty mollusks hold their turf.

Antarctic Weddell seal looks quizzically into the cameray

Minnesota researchers survey seals by satellite: BTN LiveBIG

Minnesota researchers survey seals by satellite: BTN LiveBIG

No seal can hide from the eye in the sky!

BTN LiveBIG: Illinois professor sinks his teeth into research

BTN LiveBIG: Illinois professor sinks his teeth into research

Take a moment and picture in your mind a college biology laboratory? Did you envision a crossbow shooting arrows into ballistics gelatin? Probably not. However, that was the recent setup for Philip Anderson, assistant professor of animal biology at the University of Illinois. Anderson - along with researchers Jeffrey LaCosse from Charles E. Jordan High […]

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