Encouraged by these results, Dudin, Dey, Guichard, and Hamel launched a close collaboration. Three years later, their work has produced near-encyclopedic insight into hundreds of protist species and ...

For centuries, scientists have known that plants "breathe" through microscopic pores on their leaves called stomata. These ...

NEW DELHI- Amid a rise in mosquito-borne diseases, including malaria, dengue, and chikungunya, researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi announced the development of an ...

Researchers have transformed female mosquito feeding tubes into ultra-high-resolution 3D-printing nozzles. The approach allows printers to lay down material with line widths as small as 20 microns — ...

Researchers in McGill's Department of Mechanical Engineering and at Drexel University have developed an innovative manufacturing technique that makes female mosquito proboscides, or feeding tubes, ...

Mosquitoes are best known as pests. Now, researchers have turned one of their most irritating features into a precision manufacturing tool. A research team from McGill University and Drexel University ...

New Delhi: Mosquito bites are often dismissed as minor irritations, yet they remain gateways to some of the world's most persistent diseases. Seeking a dependable layer of protection, researchers at ...

3D print of a maple leaf made with the mosquito proboscis micronozzle at various resolutions The authors declare that they have no competing interests. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

Summer's here and after a wet spring in many parts of Australia, mosquitoes are out in force. Insect repellent has become a routine requirement for time outdoors. A bite from a mosquito can be itchy ...

My partner, who has a genuine phobia of needles (when it's time to draw blood, rapid breathing, dilated pupils, uncontolled tremors, etc), always wondered why they can't leverage mosquitoes to deliver ...

1. There are mosquito species that don't feed on humans. 2. Only the female mosquitos drink blood. The males drink nectar. I wonder if cloning just males would be economically feasible. Click to ...