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- nottheonion@lemmy.world
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)
Keep in mind, you can’t such squish them.
Yeah yeah, we’ll figure that out, but first let’s talk about that first round of VC funds, right?