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Dead mosquito proboscis used for high-resolution 3D printing nozzle (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 11 hours ago by Deebster to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Say what? Is this not exploiting an animal, or worse, creating a potential market incentive to further exploit animal bodies and life? I'm not even vegan. I know individuals have exceptions, and the philosophy is a spectrum rather than a monolith and all that, but are mosquitoes not animal life?

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 15 points 6 hours ago

I think they were joking.