A mosquito has a very finely tuned proboscis that is excellent at slipping through your skin to suck out the blood beneath. Researchers at McGill University recently figured that the same biological ...

In a redeeming development for one of nature’s most universally denounced pests, researchers from McGill and Drexel Universities have discovered that mosquito stingers might one day be used for ...

Under a microscope, the mosquito’s proboscis looks like a tiny, precision tool. Thin, flexible, and sharp, it slips through skin almost unnoticed to draw blood. To most people, it’s a nuisance. To ...

Mosquitoes are responsible for more than a million deaths worldwide every year through the transmission of viral diseases like malaria and dengue. Their bloodsucking ways leave itchy bumps, they ...

Engineers have turned one of nature’s most reviled body parts into a precision tool, using the hollow feeding tubes of dead mosquitoes to print structures smaller than a human blood cell. The approach ...

A mosquito has a very finely tuned proboscis that is excellent at slipping through your skin to suck out the blood beneath. Researchers at McGill University recently figured that the same biological ...

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 ...

I was fascinated to read that a mosquito’s proboscis can act as a surprisingly hardy 3D printer nozzle (29 November, p 18). I wonder if they can also manufacture a replacement mosquito proboscis?

On one hand, it's extremely creepy to raise creatures simply to harvest specific body parts. But then on the other hand, factory farming is probably infinitely worse. Click to expand... I'm not ...