Biggest Acoustics Meeting Ever
...venly tones of a violin? Could sound waves replace hypodermic needles and scalpels inthe hospital of the future? Do babies begin to learn their native language even before birth? These and many other questions will be addressed at what will be the biggest conference ever devotedexclusively to the science of ac...Taking The "Ouch" Out Of Needles: Arrays Of "Microneedles" Offer New Technique For Drug Delivery
...vive attacks byenzymes in the liver. Conventional hypodermic needles get drugs directly intothe bloodstream, but cause pain, create the potential for infection, and requiremedical training to use. A limited number of compounds, such as nicotine, can be readily absorbed bythe skin. Techniques are being develo...Fruit fly model could explain how mosquitoes carry malaria: new drugs and vaccines on the horizon
...ing malaria, mosquitoes do not act merely as dirty hypodermic needles, passing infected blood from one person to another. Instead, they provide an environment for the parasite to grow and develop. The parasite enters the mosquito when the mosquito bites an infected person and drinks a "blood meal." Once inside,...A 2,000 year-old technique may hold the key to acupuncture's therapeutic effect
... needles are of a finer gauge than even the finest hypodermic needles (not considered therapeutic); acupuncture rarely results in a single drop of blood being discharged. What skeptics are not aware of is that acupuncture typically involves manual needle manipulation after needle insertion. Manual needle manip...Endangered freshwater mussels saved
...and his colleagues collect gravid females, using a hypodermic syringe to harvest the larvae. They then deposit larvae onto the gills of the type of fish that particular species of mussel prefers. The larvae, which are parasitic, must attach to fish, from which they extract the nutrients required for them to tr...15-foot hypodermic needles provide evidence for vast oceanic crustal biosphere
... expedition he led last summer. Fifteen-foot-long hypodermic needles strong enough to penetrate the volcanic r...ry designed probes that look remarkably like giant hypodermic needles. The 15-foot-long stainless steel probes were driven into the summit of a 3.5-million-year-o...