Engineers have spent decades trying to make shoes lighter, springier and more supportive. Now they are adding something far more radical: propulsion. Bionic sneakers that quietly push wearers up hills ...

Sports rehab research at Loughborough University is turning fantasy into reality with the aim of supercharging recovery and making treatments more widely available ...

BARCELONA, Spain--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kaspersky Lab experts investigating the experimental cloud infrastructure for advanced bionic prostheses have identified several previously unknown security issues ...

Scientists are growing ears, bone and skin in the lab, and doctors are planning more face transplants and other extreme plastic surgeries. Around the country, the most advanced medical tools that ...

It’s been 20 years since Dr. Ed Damiano, who is a professor of biomedical engineering at Boston University, used his lab to invent the iLet Bionic Pancreas, which is an automated, wearable, and pocket ...

Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, TV shows, comics, science and robots. She is the author of the books Live or Die: Survival Hacks, Wizarding World: Movie Magic Amazing Artifacts, The Star ...

Shirley Ryan AbilityLab is heading up a study that may restore the sense of touch to the "thumbs and fingertips" of people whose arms have been amputated. The Streeterville rehabilitation hospital has ...