Children with diseases like muscular dystrophy may have a hard time moving with their weakening muscles. Now a new device, called Vigor, could help. The mechanism gives their muscles an additional ...

Maybe you’re trying to palm a basketball or grip a football more securely. Perhaps you want to spread your fingers a little wider across a piano keyboard or guitar frets. Or maybe you’ve just always ...

Combining lab-grown muscle tissue with a series of flexible mechanical joints has led to the development of an artificial hand that can grip and make gestures. The breakthrough shows the way forward ...

A young Glasgow woman living with muscular dystrophy says "exhaustion comes hand-in-hand" with the condition. Sophie Hutchison, 24, was diagnosed with limb girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD) twelve ...