(The Company of Biologists) Barnacles are a major problem for the shipping industry. Working out how they stick to boat hulls is of major economic importance. On Oct. 16, 2009, Dan Rittschof from Duke University publishes his amazing discovery that barnacle glue cures in the same way that blood clots. "Barnacle glue polymerization is a specialized form of wound healing," says Rittschof.

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