Archive for July, 2008

Happy Independence Day Vanuatu

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

 Vanuatu, a Pacific island nation, is celebrating its Independence Day today.
Full Name Republic of Vanuatu
Capital City Port Vila (on the island of Efate)
Area 860,000 sq km, 332,046 sq miles
Population 200,000 +
Time Zone GMT/UTC +11 ()
Languages Bislama (official), French (official), English (official)
Religion Christian (84%), animist [...]

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Mosquito needle for painless injections

Friday, July 18th, 2008

Indian IIT  professor Suman Chakraborty (from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur) and Kazuyoshi Tsuchiya of Tokai University in Kanagawa have developed a painless microneedle that can be used medically.
It can be used for giving painless drug injections, to take blood for testing and forthings like a wristwatch-type diabetic glucose monitor.
A female mosquito sucks human [...]

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