John Horne lost his right leg to bone cancer when he was a freshman in high school. This intensely personal experience spawned his career and passion for advocating for those with limb loss. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A multi-disciplinary team has found a way to convert nerve impulses into light, opening the way for more scalable neural implants. Biomedical and electrical engineers at UNSW Sydney have developed a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...