Wood wasps use their stingers to drill into wood and lay their eggs inside trees. The resulting damage to wood that may end up as furniture and other structures in our homes might lead most of us to think of them as pests. Not so for the medical field, for which wood wasps are an inspiration. In their quest for safer surgical procedures, scientists have created probes that mimic the way this insect's stinger burrows into wood.
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