After this loss, accessing and affording traditional prosthetic devices can present their own challenge to these individuals, who are often in developing countries with limited medical care. A group ...

England’s port city of Southampton launched some of the most storied ocean liners in the world. It also will launch Maggie Brooks’ career as a prosthetic engineer. The biomedical engineering graduate ...

Two biomedical engineering graduate students were invited to participate in the October Innovate-A-Thon competition. Master’s students Sahana Balaji and Sophia Ramsey represented the University of ...

News 5 Cleveland: Emily Graczyk, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, described the sensory prosthetic technology she is testing in a clinical trial. People may worry about using their ...

Prosthetics, biomedical engineering and degenerative myelopathy are not the kinds of things most 10-year-olds think about, but eight years ago, these thoughts triggered a passion for Lewis-Palmer High ...

Researcher Helen Huang holds a robotic prosthetic leg. Huang and colleagues have developed a new algorithm that combines two processes for personalizing robotic prosthetic devices to both optimize the ...

What if individuals with prosthetic limbs were able to feel sensations like heat and cold? This is what a recent study published in Nature Biomedical Engineering hopes to address as a team of ...

Researchers created realistic, skin-like replicas made of Ecoflex, a type of silicone rubber that can potentially serve as a platform to evaluate risks of bacterial infections from intravenous ...

Keven Walgamott had a good "feeling" about picking up the egg without crushing it. What seems simple for nearly everyone else can be more of a Herculean task for Walgamott, who lost his left hand and ...

In the holiday movie The Grinch, makeup artists are reported to have spent several hours each day encasing Jim Carrey’s face with prosthetics to create the iconic grumpy, green-furred creature. Such ...