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)
Ugh. I hope that there being a use for the little bastards now doesn’t make people breed them on purpose.
I did not have GMO mosquitos bred for a more effective proboscis escaping into the wild on my bingo card
Imagine looking down and there’s a mosquito printing a fucking benchy on your forearm.
Even splatted on the back of it?
Have you seen the footage of scientists feeding them from their own arms? Nooope, not for all the tea in China.
If it makes you feel better, the people who stick their arms in aren’t allergic to mosquito bites. Doesn’t bother them to get bit beyond the feeling of being bit.
I mean I guess it could happen that they are just masochistic, but typically not.
I hope not. Around here, you just step outside and there will be a dozen swarming around you.