A Japanese scientist has created an almost painless hypodermic needle, inspired by the mosquito's proboscis. Mosquitoes are perhaps useful for something after all, besides feeding frogs.

Looking to mosquitoes for a way to develop painless microneedles Research finds four keys to piercing skin without hurting Date: June 25, 2018 Source: ...

The mosquito's proboscis goes searching and probing through layers of your skin to find and infiltrate a suitable vessel. The cube-shaped objects are skin cells, and the red tubes are blood vessels.

Seiji Aoyagi and colleagues at Kansai University in Osaka, Japan, have developed a needle that mimics a mosquito's proboscis, … You will barely notice LOOK away now if you are afraid of needles.

The mosquito-inspired micro needle represents a significant advancement in medical technology. By mimicking the mosquito’s proboscis, engineers have created a tool that could make medical ...

The proboscis is no more than a glorified straw, used in males and females to feed on nectar and other plant juices. A female mosquito needs blood nutrients before she can produce eggs, so her ...

The word proboscis, the name for the long, penetrating, blood-sucking mouth part of a mosquito, doesn’t have anything to do with the word “probe.”But after watching this video shared by ...

The mosquito truly is a blood-sucking machine. The thin tube the insect injects into the skin, what’s called the proboscis, is actually comprised of six different needles that all work in tandem ...

In a potentially huge development for fashion in tropical countries, an entomologist has come up with a Spandex-polyester weave that’s impermeable to the proboscis of the mosquito ...