Tag: Amputees

  • Nation & World

    Electrifying insights into how bodies form

    A researcher is reviving the study of bioelectricity to learn how cells communicate with each other to form tissues and organs, and how harnessing those signals could one day lead to truly regenerative medicine, in which amputees could simply regrow limbs.

    13 minutes
    Mike Levin
  • Nation & World

    Taking his thesis on the road

    Michael Meo, who will graduate from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in May, led 22 people of all ages and abilities on a grueling 1,000-mile bicycle trek through the Mexican desert, which became the subject of his master’s thesis.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Veteran wants to improve the quality of life for amputees

    Cameron Waites served in Iraq as an Army medic/health care specialist from 2004 to 2008. At 34, he is a student at Harvard Medical School where he hopes to discover solutions to problems that plague his fellow veterans.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Battle cries of freedom

    A Countway Library exhibit at Harvard Medical School brings the suffering of the Civil War to light.

    7 minutes