Butterfly proboscis to sip cells

Sunday, November 22, 2009 - 17:21 in Biology & Nature

A butterfly's proboscis looks like a straw -- long, slender and used for sipping -- but it works more like a paper towel, according to researchers. They hope to borrow the tricks of this piece of insect anatomy to make small probes that can sample the fluid inside of cells.

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