Bone can heal itself, but not always in the ways we expect. Some animals regrow entire limbs. Others, like humans, can only manage a few millimeters at the tip of a finger. This wide range in ...

Some athletes are even able to alter their balance and power during motion with the aid of pressure-sensitive artificial limbs, which human limbs cannot achieve. This raises a massive ethical ...

In a discovery that rewrites our understanding of human evolution, scientists have unearthed extraordinarily rare fossils on the Indonesian island of Flores, including an adult limb bone so tiny ...

The science fiction trope of humans superpowered by computer and bionic implants is fast becoming a reality, and today, a ...

Dr. Eric Martin, chief of vascular surgery at OSF HealthCare’s St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria, is nationally recognized ...

This course considers normal human movement; pathological conditions resulting from disease, injury, malformations, birth, etc.; and engineering approaches such as prostheses (limb replacements) and ...