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Wow cool to see this as it’s not really an everyday HN post. Im somewhat familiar with research on fruit flies so kind of cool to think of the larvae being the

Wow cool to see this as it’s not really an everyday HN post. Im somewhat familiar with research on fruit flies so kind of cool to think of the larvae being the “product” here instead of the fly. Of course the real end goal is the medical healing.. Curious on how maggots and leeches may overlap with their medical uses? Maggots can be gross when seen en masse in the “wild” but I’d probably be fine with using them in controlled environments.

NateEag 4y ago
> Curious on how maggots and leeches may overlap with their medical uses? I think very little. I have no relevant expertise, but I think maggots are used mainly because they eat dead flesh - good for cleaning out necrotic wounds. IIRC, leeches are used in the modern era for the impacts they can have on your vascular system (since they've evolved to suck blood, they have some interesting biochemistry around that, IIUC).