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)
So these 3D printed things arent vegan?
Mosquitoes are an exception to the values typically exhibited in veganism.
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?
I think they were joking.