Media

Mucus: It’s Snot What You Think (New York Times)

Mucus Saves Your Life Every Day (Scientific American)

Your Cervical Mucus Is Beautiful (NPR’s Science Friday)

How the Sugars in Spit Tame the Body’s Unruly Fungi (Wired)

Katharina Ribbeck is interviewed on NPR’s Science Friday! Mucus–it’s Snot What You Think (hosted by Ira Flatow)

Radio show Big Picture Science A twist of slime (hosted by Seth Shostak and Molly Bentley)

How Mucus Tames Microbes (NIH Director’s Blog)

Mucus contains powerful sugars that tame germs (Washington Post)

Study reveals how mucus tames microbes (MIT News)

Mucus: The Body’s Unsung Hero (Scientific American)

The science of slime (MIT Technology Review)

Why mucus is the ‘unsung hero’ of the body (STAT)

Why mucus is the ‘unsung hero’ of the human body

An educational video created by the Ribbeck Team

                                                                                    

MIT K12 Initiative                                                   Chemistry in Action: 

                         A video on mucus functions created by the Ribbeck Lab         An interview about our work on Preterm Birth

Molecules found in mucus can thwart fungal infection  |MIT News

Synthetic mucus can mimic the real thing |MIT News

Study suggests simple way to predict preterm births |MIT News

Symposium: Beyond 2016—MIT’s Frontiers of the Future | MIT Symposium

With synthetic mucus, researchers take aim at antibiotic resistance | Press Release

Mucus’ influence on bacterial behavior |MIT News