Metal screws are indispensable in bone surgery, but they can fail under everyday stress and complications can occur when ...

Yet many men stay silent, sitting uncomfortably at their desks or shifting awkwardly in traffic, unsure whether to call it ...

Orthopaedic screws stabilise fractures and ensure proper cohesion of bone fragments. Despite their key role, complications can occur when screws loosen or even break. Until now, it has been difficult ...

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A 3D engineered kidney glomerulus model replicates structural and mechanical features of the glomerular filtration barrier, ...

While haemorrhoids affect both men and women equally, Dr Siboe says more women are likely to report symptoms and seek ...

Abstract: This study reports the first use of ultrasound (US) elastography for imaging spinal fractures by assessing the mechanical ... tissue complex in rabbit samples are generated and analyzed to ...

Researchers have developed a new method for preventing bacteria from adhering to surfaces, such as medical devices. It relies ...

Over the past few decades, rapid progress in both tissue engineering and regenerative medicine has revolutionized approaches to tissue regeneration and ...

Tissue morphogenesis requires the precise control of cell shape and cell dynamics. Cell shape is governed by cell mechanics, which explains how a set of intracellular and extracellular forces ...

Abstract: The objective of this study is to characterize the mechanical behavior of human forearm soft tissue. We present a method combined traditional indentation test with MRI technique to in vivo ...

Contributed by Michael V. L. Bennett, August 3, 2018 (sent for review June 25, 2018; reviewed by Ludmila Belayev and Cesar Borlongan) Tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) is employed in stroke patients ...