Mucus is a significant part of the body’s defense mechanism against illness. Because of its benefits to human health, researchers at MIT found a way to create synthetic mucus by replicating the make-up of real mucins. The new synthetic mucus successfully neutralized the bacterial toxin that causes cholera, and this new biologically-inspired design could create more opportunities in the future to replicate other features of mucins to synthetically create antimicrobial devices to eventually treat/prevent disease.
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