Back when hardware meant bony plates and flesh-rending teeth, a living version of the humble screw evolved naturally in, of all places, the leg joints of weevils. The legs of at least 15 kinds of ...

CASTEL SAN PIETRO, Switzerland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Family-owned orthopedics leader Medacta International today announced the first surgery utilizing its Medacta Unconstrained Screw Technology ...

A musculoskeletal system so far unknown in the animal world was recently discovered in weevils. The hip of Trigonopterus oblongus does not consist of the usual hinges, but of joints based on a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Hyoung Yeon Seo, MD, presented his group’s findings at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Inspired Spine has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its Trident sacroiliac joint screw system, the company ...

Many kinds of human engineering have biological equivalents – the most famous is probably the ball and socket joint, which is found in car steering columns and human arms alike. The newest and ...