Why are US military experts interested in studying a mosquito bite?

On the eve, Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the establishment of an innovative military research center "Era" in Anapa, which is supposed to implement advanced developments in the interests of the Ministry of Defense. And it is not only about the direct development of weapons or military equipment. This, for example, about robotics, IT, bioengineering. In principle, we can talk about the development of dual-use.

In this regard, it will not be superfluous to pay attention to what issues are being worked on today in foreign research and development centers. One of the segments is the above-mentioned bioengineering and biomedicine.

As an example - a project that is implemented by experts from the University of Ohio (USA). Two university professors, Bharat Bhushan and Howard Winbigler, published an article about the study of a mosquito bite. It would seem that you can explore here? .. However, not only the leading US medical centers, but also military specialists have become interested in the work.

From the statement of Bharata Bhushana:

Look at how a mosquito acts: it is absolutely painless for us to pierce our skin with our proboscis and can suck blood for quite a long time, something we do not even notice. He does not cause any pain to a person during a bite.
Further, a professor at the American University says that the group he led scientifically investigated the mosquito proboscis and created an algorithm for a bite that does not cause pain in humans.

Ohio University Professor:

We identified four reasons why a person does not feel pain. Previously, they spoke exclusively about the substance that the mosquito uses to numb the skin. But that's not all. In his arsenal, there is a unique vibration of the proboscis during the piercing of the skin. This vibration of the serrated area of ​​the sting, resembling a saw, setting in motion alternating soft and hard parts of the mosquito's proboscis to the beat of the pulse and leads to the fact that a person does not suspect a bite until the mosquito (mosquito) does its job. Mosquito saliva with a unique protein finally guarantees the absence of pain and any reaction of the person.

According to Bhushan and Winbigler, on this basis a unique microneedle is created, the introduction under the skin of which a person will not feel.
Some details of the work are published in the western journal Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials.

The authors say that their development could be a breakthrough when used in children's medical institutions. However, people who are used to extrapolating scientific research to the military sphere understand that painless microneedles can be used not only to improve human health. As an option - the use of painless injections, leaving no trace on the body, in order to damage the health of a particular person or group of people - as conspiracy therapists have been writing about for a long time. Now this kind of notes (after the publication of the material by professors at Ohio University) do not look like conspiracy.

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[vkl.47]

Little them malaria

[Incvizitor]

They always have few deaths, that for some, death is always money for them.

[Jack O'Neill]

Not specifically "them", but in general to all people. People will always invent the means of killing their own kind. There are no differences we or they - it does not matter - it is human nature.

[Nikolay Fedorov]

Quote: Jack O'Neill

Not specifically "them", but in general to all people. People will always invent the means of killing their own kind. There are no differences we or they - it does not matter - it is human nature.

Thank God, it is not inherent in all mankind. Inventing the means of killing one’s own kind is not the basis and essence of all people. This is inherent only for a part of people, perhaps - for the most part. But there is another part ...

[Jack O'Neill]

Thank God, it is not inherent in all mankind. Inventing the means of killing one’s own kind is not the basis and essence of all people. This is inherent only for a part of people, perhaps - for the most part. But there is another part ...

The fact of the matter is that it is inherent in absolutely all people!

[Nikolay Fedorov]

Quote: Jack O'Neill

Thank God, it is not inherent in all mankind. Inventing the means of killing one’s own kind is not the basis and essence of all people. This is inherent only for a part of people, perhaps - for the most part. But there is another part ...

The fact of the matter is that it is inherent in absolutely all people!

Well, what youthful maximalism ... Does your grandmother also invent killing means? Take a look around and take a closer look. You will see many other people.

[militia2]

There is a big difference. I will give an example. Only a few days after the Americans dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Steel signed an order to create the so-called Special Committee under the Council of Ministers of the USSR. Any departments and organizations of the Soviet Union, as well as all people, were obliged to obey the orders of the Spekomitet. The Special Committee was headed by L.P. Beria (by the way, old-timers say that not one of the project participants was repressed). At a gala reception in the Kremlin on the occasion of the completion of the atomic bomb project, Stalin said: “If you hadn’t had time, then you would have tried it for yourself.” The first persons of the project were awarded with unprecedented at that time awards.
This is to say that the Americans created atomic weapons for attack and robbery, and we - for defense against this robbery and destruction. There is a difference?

[210ox]

To whom are they? We have similar studies too .. In any case, there were. Most of the very useful inventions can be put on a "military footing" .. If not all.

Quote: vkl.47

Little them malaria

[Freelancer7]

You read the article, it’s not about diseases that carry mosquitoes, but about needles. And then I wrote the first kamment and I am glad.

[The black]

Until humanity destroys itself, it will create and create more and more new weapons and methods for self-destruction. Unfortunately, this is so and this process is almost irreversible.

[Anarchist]

And I believe that humanity will defeat the greedy bourgeoisie, and armed conflicts and all such manifestations will leave with it ... Anarchy is the mother of order! And not the one who is lacking is poor, but the one who is not enough ...

[The black]

Quote: Anarchist

And I believe that humanity will defeat the greedy bourgeoisie, and armed conflicts and all such manifestations will go away with it

Holy lost soul

[Anarchist]

So you and the like interfere with the sale of such dreams! They don’t want to change anything in themselves ... They pay doctors, cops, in different instances, and then they complain about corruption.
Man is forced to kill his own kind while defending himself! But there are those who are few and they are attacking ... And this is not a character trait, but the meanness of the soul. Nothing, we still harness ...

Quote: Black

Holy lost soul

And it’s not me who’s crazy, but something’s wrong with you ... Since they began to measure like that.

[bouncyhunter]

It is unlikely that anyone will deny that a person is particularly inventive in finding ways to destroy their own kind ...

[cost]

Gentlemen commentators, take an example from mosquitoes - they do not sting each other

[MPN]

Well, there are also sexual intercourse ..., possibly homosexual ... while they are studying, and so with vibration, they are painless and do not notice how they replenish the ranks of gays ...

[sabakina]

Rich, not only that, they will also be more humane than us, because they bite us painlessly!

[Nyrobsky]

Quote: Rich

Gentlemen commentators, take an example from mosquitoes - they do not sting each other

But, as scientific studies of these bloodsuckers show, only mosquito ladies bite exclusively, while their males eat floral nectar. Agree that this can be safely transferred to the human race when wives gnaw husbands for tasting beer. So the peaceful coexistence in mosquito families I call into great doubt.

[militia2]

The process is reversible if the motives for creating a new weapon are destroyed. Previously, some hoped that the "ghost that roams Europe" would be able to do this. Now, however, something has changed, but the land is rich in talents, and something tells me that the new "ghost" is already on its way.

[parusnik]

I remember, in my difficult totalitarian childhood, there were no gadgets, the Internet, too .. Telik and radio .. But I liked the radio more, of course there were few radio stations, but ... Such a transmission of KOAPP was broadcast every month on the radio at 16.00. Reporting on the incredible events — a cycle of radio plays based on the scripts of Maylen Konstantinovsky, who introduced children to the problems of bionics in a humorous form. ..

[voyaka uh]

What do you want? Behind insects - 300 million years of evolution.
We have an instinctive disgust for them. How to overtake us evolutionarily.
Mechanically and chemically, these are the most advanced creations.
Flight of the beetle - tiny wings raise a heavy body.
How? A sort of Sikorski with a propeller from a toy drone!
Jump fleas to a height of a thousand times its growth.
Therefore, the latest research is aimed at studying insects,
spiders, centipedes, etc. Their joints, eyes, chemical processes.
By the way - nano-technologies hated in Russia : only bio-nano-technology.
The study of the microworld is the key to technological dominance in the near future.

[The black]

Quote: voyaka uh

By the way - nano-technologies hated in Russia

Yes, it’s not hateful nanotechnology in Russia, but a red dog that grubs from them (and just creates the appearance of intense activity, plundering the allocation of funds) The rest I agree.

[Pirogov]

Quote: voyaka uh

What do you want? Behind insects - 300 million years of evolution.
We have an instinctive disgust for them. How to overtake us evolutionarily.
Mechanically and chemically, these are the most advanced creations.
Flight of the beetle - tiny wings raise a heavy body.
How? A sort of Sikorski with a propeller from a toy drone!
Jump fleas to a height of a thousand times its growth.
Therefore, the latest research is aimed at studying insects,
spiders, centipedes, etc. Their joints, eyes, chemical processes.
By the way - nano-technologies hated in Russia smile: only bio-nano-technologies.
The study of the microworld is the key to technological dominance in the near future.

Well, yes, the USA and Israel, white and fluffy, and also scientists ............................. change the nickname to the TALE.

[Sidor Amenpodestovich]

Flight of the beetle - tiny wings raise a heavy body.
How?

Very simple. It’s necessary - just! - create a vibroengine capable of performing the required number of vibrations per second, and sufficiently strong wings.
The problem of mankind is not a misunderstanding of the models of nature, but the impossibility of reproducing them, in view of the lack of suitable materials and an energy source.

[voyaka uh]

Yes, I understand that the beetle does not violate the laws of physics.
How did you write correctly - the matter is in the materials.
They are studied very seriously.

[ALEXXX1983]

Not so perfect. They also have shortcomings (compared with higher vertebrates): primitive nervous, circulatory and respiratory systems, for example. Due to the characteristics of the respiratory system, their terrestrial species cannot grow larger than a certain size (the extremities will be very short of oxygen). Also, their size limits the need for molting - you have to completely change the exoskeleton from which they grew. There are many others.
So "there is not so simple."

[Volodin]

Quote: ALEXXX1983

Due to the nature of the respiratory system, their land species cannot grow larger than a certain size.

Something tells me that they do not complex at all about their size)))

[ALEXXX1983]

Needless to say - complexes can arise only in the presence of reason.

[voyaka uh]

We naively think that they preceded them in the mind.
Many insects have a different type of mind - collective, decentralized.
One ant - dumb as a cork, ten are already beginning to think
"how to live", and 10,000 - develop complex strategies and tactics of displacement, war, construction, agriculture - growing "cows" (aphids) and "wheat" (mushrooms).
All this people are just starting to learn about them.

[militia2]

In my opinion, Alexei, you are reasoning correctly. Only now the word "hated in Russia" is not true.

[Conductor]

Not a lethal weapon. It disgustingly itches and bites to scratch.

[Vard]

Their Komarikhs are wrong ... ours are like !!! they’ll blow between the shoulder blades ... eyes go to the forehead and then a blister ... So it’s impossible to make pains based on our needles ...

[DMoroz]

In our regions, they are also not the same (namely ordinary mosquitoes). Once, one day, from Yamal accidentally in a suitcase in Sochi flew on vacation with me, so it really is twice as large as the southern ones.

[Beltasir matyagu]

In Voronezh mosquito invasion

[militia2]

I sympathize. Earlier in Voronezh there were also beautiful girls.

[Normal ok]

The original "news" on the Air Force sounded like this: Bill Gates invested 2 million in an anti-malaria mosquito program. And here, as always: a lie, a zvezdozh and a provocation. You will ever become smart. The capitalists are tearing us all up for "meat" and we are discussing "who has more."

[2329 Carpenter]

Probably somewhere in Novosib this mosquito bite was dismantled in nanomotion 60 years ago.

[militia2]

God give it! There were many inquisitive.

[2329 Carpenter]

Quote: Black

Quote: Anarchist

And I believe that humanity will defeat the greedy bourgeoisie, and armed conflicts and all such manifestations will go away with it

Holy lost soul

It will happen anyway. But already without us.

[2329 Carpenter]

Quote: Black

Quote: voyaka uh

By the way - nano-technologies hated in Russia

Yes, it’s not hateful nanotechnology in Russia, but a red dog that grubs from them (and just creates the appearance of intense activity, plundering the allocation of funds) The rest I agree.

"Red Dog" was given the task of doing nano. And they carefully observe how he deals with them; or how it grubs; or which and from whom he receives well-known foreign grants ... Which, as you might guess, will never be spent on the goal set by the grantors, but will most likely go to Burevestnik ++.
Over time, the grantee will be asked such rhetorical questions that he, like Gaidar, Berezovsky or Nemtsov, is unlikely to be able to answer them ...

[2329 Carpenter]

[quote = Beltasir Matyagu] In Voronezh mosquito invasion [
In Voronezh, there is no invasion of mosquitoes. In Voronezh sloppiness of housing services. It is necessary to dry the cellars: change the pipe-gate-gaskets.
It is necessary to drive these services by all available methods. From the return of the “fas” command to retired grandmothers to the invitation of (relatively) independent TV.

[seregatara1969]

mosquito sitting on black?

[Skarpzd]

what kind of mosquitoes they have are wrong. we have already a couple of years - as a breeze pulls from the Tomsk region, so from the taiga such creatures fly ..... two mosquitoes raise a cat into the air))) and the midge is a bastard, so the windshield gnaws ...

[Xscorpion]

.See how the mosquito works: it pierces our skin with its proboscis absolutely painlessly and can suck out blood for quite a long time, which we don’t even notice. He does not hurt a person during a bite.

Where did they find such mosquitoes? In Russia, they are not painless And when they bite, they do not inject an anesthetic, but a substance that prevents blood coagulation. And pain depends on the size of the mosquito itself and on the place where it bites.