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)
Interesting fact: You can use an elephant’s trunk as a low-resolution 3D printing nozzle
This one seems about that size
Yes but does it have to be dead at the time?
I’m really not sure why they felt the need to point this out in the article.