I caught this yesterday over on Yahoo! News (Link):

The bacterium Caulobacter crescentus uses the toughest glue on Earth to stick to river rocks, and now scientists are trying to figure out how to produce the stuff.
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The single-celled bacterium uses sugar molecules to stay put in rivers, streams, and water pipes, a new study found. It’s not clear how the glue actually works, however, but researchers presume some special proteins must be attached to the sugars.

It’s that part about sugar molecules that really got my attention. This helps cement (excuse the pun) some things that have been floating around in my grey matter for a while, going back to something I saw on the RepRap blog and which I’ve hinted at in other posts. I’ll be assembling the pieces elsewhere and post a link later.

The original article is over on LiveScience (Link) in case the Yahoo page evaporates.