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Looking to mosquitoes for a way to develop painless microneedles

By Guest PostSeptember 22, 2018Healthbharat bhushan, dev gurera, mosquito, nanoindentation, painless microneedle

Research finds four keys to piercing skin without hurting

A mosquito can insert a needle-like probe into your skin and draw blood for several minutes without you even noticing.

Researchers at The Ohio State University believe we can learn from nature’s design of the mosquito to create a painless microneedle for medical purposes. (more…)

In Amazon Wars, Bands of Brothers-in-Law

By Guest PostDecember 12, 2014Culture, Media, Scienceai skills, anthropologist, beth smith, biogenic dental product, child sexual content, chimpanzees, chimps, colliculus superior, cybertipline, dental cavities, dev gurera, digital crimes unit, gdpr compliance, greg huang, humans, katrina lyon smith, mark flinn, mehmet sarikaya, model, nanoindentation, painless microneedle, repair tooth enamel, robert walker, sami dogan, shane macfarlan, spears, university of utah, village, visuelle kortex, wahrnehmungssteuerung im gehirn, ziad hafed

How Culture Influences Violence among the Amazon’s ‘Fierce People’

When Yanomamö men in the Amazon raided villages and killed decades ago, they formed alliances with men in other villages rather than just with close kin like chimpanzees do. And the spoils of war came from marrying their allies’ sisters and daughters, rather than taking their victims’ land and women. (more…)