Combining lab-grown muscle tissue with a series of flexible mechanical joints has led to the development of an artificial ...

With this new lightweight prosthetic hand, activities like tying knots, combing hair, and playing chess could become much ...

A biohybrid hand which can move objects and do a scissor gesture has been created. The researchers used thin strings of lab-grown muscle tissue bundled into sushilike rolls to give the fingers enough ...

A team of researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) has recently developed a lightweight prosthetic hand with 19 degrees of freedom (DOF), capable of replicating human ...

“Sometimes redundancy has a way of showing up under certain conditions; they’re not truly redundant,” said Michael Snyder, ...

The fact that most people don’t understand the anatomy of a shoe leads to a near universal shopping ... who have been wearing shoes with arch support for many years as the muscles in their arches that ...

Humans don't have hollow bones like birds do, so how big would our wings have to be to lift us off the ground?

It's a variation of a shoulder press that targets the biceps and the entire shoulder muscle. "This is a multiplanar movement, which engages more muscles than your traditional overhead press," per ...

The diaphragm is primarily composed of muscle and fibrous tissue. The central tendon is a large part of the diaphragm that anchors the diaphragm to the ribs. A healthy person can have some minor ...

graduate director of the Human Performance and Fitness program at Lehman College, who wrote the book Science and Development of Muscle Hypertrophy. While it used to be thought that only heavy ...