Day: April 24, 2012

Undergraduate students at Rice University have designed a self-adjusting, automated device for patients undergoing distraction osteogenesis to correct bone deformities that leave one limb shorter than the other. In collaboration with Shriners Hospital for Children in Houston, the engineering students…

Researchers at the University of Sheffield in the UK have developed a method of assisting nerves damaged by traumatic accidents to repair naturally. This development could improve chances of restoring sensation and movement in injured limbs, according to a press…