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A severed mosquito proboscis can be turned into an extremely fine nozzle for 3D printing, and this could help create replacement tissues and organs for transplants.

I've linked to a decent write-up on Tom's Hardware, but New Scientist covered it last week too.

Source paper: 3D necroprinting: Leveraging biotic material as the nozzle for 3D printing (science.org)

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[–] Lemming6969@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (3 children)

There is no way this is more viable than a manufactured micro needle, nor scalable.

[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 51 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not scalable? You haven't seen my back yard in the summer time, I'm gonna be rich!!

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

He said: I'm gonna be rich!

But all he got was an itch 🎶

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Keep in mind, you can't squish them.

[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Yeah yeah, we'll figure that out, but first let's talk about that first round of VC funds, right?

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you scaled it, it wouldn't be high-resolution anymore.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

Scaling goes in both directions.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

It is not. This is just yet another piece of garbage science made to get into headlines, nothing more or less.