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by Bruce Brown | April 19, 2017 | General News, Medical
Military veterans and civilian amputees may soon benefit from a new type of prosthetic that helps them swim. According to the Congressional Research Service A Guide to U.S. Military Casualty Statistics, as of June 2015, there were 1,645 veterans with major limb...
![Low Cost Synthetic Muscle from Nylon Fibers [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2016/11/MIT-synthetic-muscle-with-video-600x276.png?resize=600%2C276)
by Bruce Brown | November 24, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Nylon fiber has a new powerful new application; it can be used to make artificial muscle fibers, according to the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. Muscles expand and contract and previous artificial muscles do that as well. Real muscles, however, also bend,...
![Coiled Nylon Creates Artificial Muscle Threads [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2016/10/UT-muscle-thread.jpg?resize=600%2C275)
by Alfred Poor | September 28, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
From robotics to prosthetics, creating materials that mimic the actions of human muscle tissue are in great demand. Researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas have developed a technology that creates threads that can contract on demand, which could open the door...
