Hagfish slime is as strong as steel and wrapped up in a single cell

Monday, September 22, 2014 - 21:30 in Physics & Chemistry

The threads that make up hagfish slime are 10,000,000 times longer than they are wide. And the reason they can be stored in a hagfish without getting tangled? Each one is coiled neatly into a single cell. 

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