A team of chemists at McGill University, working with a colleague from Charité-Universitätsmedizin, in Germany, has uncovered part of the process used by mussels to bind to rocks and to quickly ...

A mussel lays down byssal threads to anchor itself to rocks in pounding surf. UC Berkeley's Philip Messersmith synthesized the bivalve's tough glue in hopes of using it to close surgical incisions ...

A recent study from researchers in Canada and Germany has revealed that an unlikely event, occurring over 12 million years ago, played an important role in shaping one of Canada's most damaging ...