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    Biomimicry of mosquitoes has inspired researchers to design a new painless injection needle. Mosquitoes are able to pierce skin and extract blood without causing pain through techniques like numbing saliva, vibrations, and the jagged edges of their proboscis. Researchers are working to create a microneedle with a softer tip, like a mosquito's proboscis, to reduce pain. If successful, the new needle design could make injections less painful for people with a fear of needles and allow needles to remain in patients for extended periods. The research demonstrates how studying nature can lead to medical innovations that benefit humans.

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    Biomimicry of mosquitoes has inspired researchers to design a new painless injection needle. Mosquitoes are able to pierce skin and extract blood without causing pain through techniques like numbing saliva, vibrations, and the jagged edges of their proboscis. Researchers are working to create a microneedle with a softer tip, like a mosquito's proboscis, to reduce pain. If successful, the new needle design could make injections less painful for people with a fear of needles and allow needles to remain in patients for extended periods. The research demonstrates how studying nature can lead to medical innovations that benefit humans.

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    Biomimicry of mosquitoes has inspired researchers to design a new painless injection needle. Mosquitoes are able to pierce skin and extract blood without causing pain through techniques like numbing saliva, vibrations, and the jagged edges of their proboscis. Researchers are working to create a microneedle with a softer tip, like a mosquito's proboscis, to reduce pain. If successful, the new needle design could make injections less painful for people with a fear of needles and allow needles to remain in patients for extended periods. The research demonstrates how studying nature can lead to medical innovations that benefit humans.

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    Injection Needles Biomimicry

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    Biomimicry of mosquitoes has inspired researchers to design a new painless injection needle. Mosquitoes are able to pierce skin and extract blood without causing pain through techniques like numbing saliva, vibrations, and the jagged edges of their proboscis. Researchers are working to create a microneedle with a softer tip, like a mosquito's proboscis, to reduce pain. If successful, the new needle design could make injections less painful for people with a fear of needles and allow needles to remain in patients for extended periods. The research demonstrates how studying nature can lead to medical innovations that benefit humans.

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    Nature's Impact on

    the world of
    medicine
    GROUP 6
    Gianna, Gaby, Daney, Marc, & Paul
    OUR DESIGN:
    "PAINLESS INJECTION NEEDLES"
    Our 01 Biomimicry and it's importance to humans

    Talking 02 How mosquitoes inspired a new needle design

    Points 03 A possible future of medicinal needles

    What to Know
    What is
    biomimicry and
    how is it
    beneficial to
    humans?
    talking point one
    It's essentiality to
    Biomimicry
    our world
    Adaptation of the mechanisms found in nature
    that'll
    . better help us solve complex problems of Results in the creation of products and processes
    humanity. that are sustainable.

    Helps us better understand the laws of nature and


    how creatures are able to adapt to their
    environment.
    Inspiration for
    the design:
    Mosquitoes

    talking point two


    Inspired by:
    " Mosquitoes "

    • Bharat Bhusan, a professor of the medical engineering at Ohio State is working on


    the new needle design.

    • Him and his team became interested in how mosquitos bite us for several minutes
    without us feeling it.

    • mosquitos are able to pierce our skin and retrieve our blood without us feeling
    anything with their numbing saliva, the vibrations of the fascicle, and the jagged
    edges on their proboscis.
    About The Proboscis
    • it varies in stiffness, meaning, it's softer towards the tip and the harder parts are
    located closer to the head of the mosquito.

    • with a softer tip, it reduces the force needed to pierce our skin therefor reducing the
    deformation and pain when they bite
    A possible
    future of
    medicinal
    needles
    talking point three
    A new painless needle?

    • The design made by researchers at Ohio State


    University and Osaka’ Kansai university features a new
    way of making injections less painful through a jagged
    edge
    As of now, the needle has not been created,
    however based on Bhushan and his team's
    research, it would be possible to make a
    microneedle containing two needles.
    What will happen
    when it’s released?
    The available data now suggests that
    it’ll make administering drugs to
    patients with trypanophobia less scary
    for them; it would also be more useful
    in cases where a needle needs to be in
    a patient for an extended period of time

    CONCLUSION

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