Bacterium makes nature’s strongest glue

Microbial adhesive is three times stronger than superglue.

Geckos, mussels and barnacles step aside — physicists have found the stickiest customer in all of biology. The title-holder is an unassuming bacterium that lives anywhere wet. By copying its feat of strength, material scientists might create new surgical glues.

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