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Mussel bound

Published on
February 4, 2000
Last updated
May 27, 2015

(Photograph) - Mussel bound: Simon McQueen Mason and fellow scientists in the molecular biology department of York University are using the secretions produced by mussels to cling on to rocks to develop a new superglue for medical and marine engineering.Photograph: Guzelian

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