Technologies Inspired By Animals

Mosquitoes – Surgical Needles

Let’s agree with the fact that we all hate mosquitoes – they come, buzz around and suck our blood day and night. At the beginning, most of the people don’t feel the mosquitoes bite as their proboscis get into under your skin. This proboscis is what Japanese researchers from Kansai University wanted to replicate and use for good.

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They invented three-pronged needle that easily get into the skin to inject medicines with no issue. Thanks to those annoying little bugs we learned something.

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