Slug trails over your carpet? Sticky slime all over your walls? Live slugs slithering around your bathroom? If you’ve noticed any of the above, it’s probably time to buy some slug tape.

When the mucin chain comes into contact with water, it expands to more than a hundred times its original size, creating a sticky mucus. By studying the versatile, unique properties of slug slime ...

Genetti and others discovered that it is particularly difficult to sequence these slugs because of the physical and chemical properties of their sticky slime. This motivated them to step up to the ...