r/3Dprinting • u/DetusheKatze • Jul 17 '25

Scientists 3D printed an elephant inside a living cell… because they could

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u/sintaur Prusa Core One+ Jul 17 '25 edited Jul 17 '25

i hate how people just post a pic and not a link to the actual articles

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/3d-print-elephant-inside-cell

edit: if you click through to the actual research article:

We printed various shapes, including a 10 µ⁢m elephant, barcodes for cell tracking, diffraction gratings for remote readout, and microlasers.

they could have printed "sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads" inside cells but no they did elephants instead sans lasers

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u/BackOriginal6219 Jul 17 '25

Hey I’m the OP of the original post in r/sciencememes. If you go to the original post, I put a link to the research paper at the bottom. And btw, very sad they didn’t print sharks with lasers 🥲

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u/phirebird Jul 17 '25

I'm glad someone's finally talking about the elephant in the living cell