At the preserve pond, my occasional swim was observed by a slick, slime-covered rat-tailed muskrat.
Professor Viney stressed that, possible medical applications for the slime are at the moment conjecture.
Its profitable Scotchgard grew from a laboratory accident that spilled slime all over somebody's shoe.
She hacked up a slime of mucous and salt, barely lifting her face to spit.
Instead, scientists hope to make proteins like the ones found in hagfish slime artificially in the lab.
Mr David Nunn, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Guy's Hospital, London, believes the snail slime could be useful.
Normally, the slime spreads out its network of tube-like 'legs', called pseudopodia, to fill all the available space.
Or the PS4 could be powered by a pink slime that feeds on negative energy, you never know.
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Fortunately, there was enough slime in my tire to keep the tire inflated for the rest of the race.
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If you're going to get into the sewer to get the rats, you're going to get covered with slime.
Pink slime was removed from school cafeterias nationwide in only 10 days.
"It was just a huge adrenaline rush, " said Mr. Johnson, covered from head to toe in a red, seedy slime.
Some special monsters like the Silver Slime allow the player to gift an additional copy to a friend when captured.
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The samples were poured through microfiber filters to extract DNA, which fish shed in their excrement, scales and body slime.
However, coming on the heels of the so-called pink slime scare this spring, the timing could not have been worse.
Last night I had dinner with some successful entrepreneurs in southwestern Minnesota, a land unscathed by subprime slime and unscrupulous short-sellers.
Every beach and every cove I walk past is lined with green slime, rotting algae draped over the seaweed and sand.
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It could be that harnessing slime to make fuel, an alluring idea that shows promise in the lab, ultimately makes no sense.
If only an iota of this same diligence had been brought to bear against Bernie Madoff or the proliferation of subprime slime.
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The researchers believe the slime is exhibiting some form of primitive intelligence.
If you want to be a princess who hangs out with Ghostbusters, then break out your Proton Pack and chase after green slime balls.
Pink slime occurs when sub-par beef scraps and connective tissue are mixed with ammonia to turn formerly inedible meat into edible ground beef.
But beef, pork and even pink slime are federally inspected and the food safety issues are nowhere near what they are for horse meat.
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Scientists at a nature reserve in Somerset have been baffled by a jelly-like slime which has appeared in a number of locations at the site.
Pieces of slime mould, an amoeba-like organism, were enticed through a 30-square-centimetre (five-square-inch) maze by the prospect of food at the end of the puzzle.
Some covet slime molds, others dream of boletes and polypores.
Truth, we might sound a wee bit ridiculous when we cry out, "I can't believe Bay says they're aliens when they're obviously derived from radioactive slime!"
Matthew Enis, Fresh Markets Editor for Supermarket News, said in an email exchange that he was surprised by the outrage over pink slime this spring.
When Grendel's mother emerges from the slime as the delicately airbrushed Angelina, her feet are cloven stilettos and her long ponytail curves behind like a dragon's tail.
It means that some of the lowliest creatures in the plant and animal kingdoms, such as slime and amoeba, may not be as primitive as once thought.
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