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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have discovered that the tubular mouths of bloodsucking mosquitoes can be repurposed as tips for 3D printers. The proboscis can print in finer detail than expensive glass tips.

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 ...

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 ...

New additive manufacturing techniques give manufacturers control over material behavior with tunable properties and ...

Female mosquitoes need to drink blood of some kind in order to lay eggs. Male mosquitoes, which do not lay eggs, subsist primarily on nectar. A male mosquito’s proboscis – its elongated feeding-tube ...

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 ...