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Nature built a 3D printer. Scientists at McGill University just turned a mosquito's proboscis into one of the smallest 3D printing tools ever created. Here's how it works. They dissected a mosquito, removed its microscopic needle, the one it uses to pierce your skin, coated it with photopolymer resin and integrated it directly into a 3D printer. The result, a resolution of 18 to 28 microns. That's roughly twice as precise as some advanced 3D printers, but at a fraction of the cost. This could revolutionize medicine. Micro blood vessels, biosensors, complex living tissue structures, all printed with insane precision. Nature solved in millions of years what engineers are still struggling to replicate. And sometimes the best technology already exists. You just have to look at the right insect. Follow Web3 Vitaly Korovits for more breakthroughs where biology meets cutting edge tech.