So I'll write out the cliffs for the docco just incase anyones too lazy to read it ;).

Basically a research team studied the Hagfish that releases a protein around it that makes the water near it turn into a gooey substance, this substance smells like "Dirty sea water" and has been proven to repel sharks.
The same fish's slime is made up of tiny fibres about 100 times smaller than human hair, that could make clothes stronger than nylon or plastic and would be more efficient than harvesting silk worms.

Still don't think I'd be putting a slime all over me that has a "consistency similar to snot" to repel the biteys haha.

Article: http://news.discovery.com/tech/hagfish-slime-super-clothes-121203.html

Worth a read and certainly interesting.


Apologies if it has been posted before, I've done a few searches and couldn't find anything.