{"id":857,"date":"2006-04-13T10:48:39","date_gmt":"2006-04-13T15:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=857"},"modified":"2006-04-21T10:39:45","modified_gmt":"2006-04-21T15:39:45","slug":"the-ultimate-sticky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=857","title":{"rendered":"The Ultimate Sticky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I caught this yesterday over on <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/space\/20060410\/sc_space\/worldsstrongestglueavailableonlyfromnature\" target=\"blank\">Yahoo! News (Link)<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThe single-celled bacterium uses sugar molecules to stay put in rivers, streams, and water pipes, a new study found. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not clear how the glue actually works, however, but researchers presume some special proteins must be attached to the sugars.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;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&#8217;ve hinted at in other posts. I&#8217;ll be assembling the pieces elsewhere and post a link later.<\/p>\n<p>The original article is over on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/animalworld\/060410_nature_glue.html\" target=\"blank\">LiveScience (Link)<\/a> in case the Yahoo page evaporates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. &#8230; The single-celled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=857\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}