Prosthetics

Sitting on a bench outside the Superhumans Centre in Lviv, Ukraine, Serhii Kopyshchyk explains the five stickers on his right leg prosthetic socket. There is an army cat standing proudly in front of the Ukrainian flag and one of a cat…

A baby from North Carolina who was born without eyes is receiving eye socket-stretching surgery so he can get prosthetics.Tate Walker, now one, from Reidsville, has anophthalmia, a genetic condition that causes the eyes not to develop in…

The Montreal-born makeup artist on The Whale, Adrien Morot, says his first Oscar wouldn’t mean as much if his friend Brendan Fraser didn’t come away with some hardware of his own. “If I would have won and Brendan didn’t, in some ways,…

In the Golden State - where it sometimes seems everyone looks like a movie star - it's not only acting talent which stars are judged on for the Oscars, often it's the scale of their transformation. This year's nominations have…

Total hip and knee replacements are challenging enough for patients. When an infection occurs in the aftermath, the results are often disastrous, requiring potent antibiotics and revisionary surgery. In APL Bioengineering, by AIP…

Biomedical and electrical engineers at UNSW Sydney have developed a new way to measure neural activity using light -- rather than electricity -- which could lead to a complete reimagining of medical technologies like nerve-operated…

Australian swimmer Jessica Smith has had an uneasy relationship with prosthetics since a childhood accident, but her convictions are being challenged by a British bionic hand that can be updated remotely anywhere in the world. The 2004…

The new air-powered hand provides a lightweight, low-maintenance and easy-to-use body-powered prosthetic option particularly well suited for children and those in low and middle-income countries. A revolutionary new hand prosthesis powered…

Every 30 seconds, a leg is amputated somewhere in the world due to diabetes. These patients often suffer from neuropathy, a loss of sensation in the lower extremities, and are therefore unable to detect damage resulting from an ill-fitting…

Rishi Kapoor's last film - Sharmaji Namkeen - is set for release later this month. The veteran actor died in April 2020 while the film's shoot hadn't been concluded. Eventually, Paresh Rawal stepped in to fill Rishi's shoes in the film. In…