Researchers at the University of Toronto's Institute of Biomedical Engineering have found that studying blood flow in leg ...

More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still divulging her secrets. In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis, whose ...

A 3D polygonal model, guided by imaging scan data and muscle scarring, reconstructing the lower limb muscles of the Australopithecus afarensis fossil AL 288-1, known as ‘Lucy’.

Hugh Herr, an engineer and biophysicist from MIT, has spent the last 34 years developing prosthetic limbs that outperform human movement. The work is close to his heart, as Herr had both legs ...

To figure out how fat affects muscle performance, Hadi Rahemi of Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada, developed an in silico model of a human calf muscle. Fat’s effects Working in ...

In our leg, if the muscle on the back of our thigh ... Biological processes of the human body. You could get a skeleton model and connect rubber bands to the bones in order to demonstrate how ...