Surgical device inspired by parasitic wasps could extract bits of you

By Christa Lesté-Lasserre

A. Sakes et al

A surgical tool impressed by parasitic wasps may well per chance develop it more uncomplicated and no more painful to make your mind up definite tumours and blood clots.

Parasitic wasps inject their eggs by a protracted, thin, tubular organ known as an ovipositor into living hosts, much like spiders and caterpillars. The organ’s blade-delight in valves, which bustle the paunchy length of the tube, creep up and down alternately pushing the eggs into the wasp’s victims the usage of friction.

Aimée Sakes at Delft College of Technology in The Netherlands and her colleagues …