A laboratory in Pittsburgh’s Bakery Square is poised to make the next breakthrough in wheelchairs, a mostly stagnant industry with huge quality of life implications for millions of disabled Americans.

Rory A. Cooper is the founding director of the Human Engineering Research Laboratories, a joint center of the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). He is a VA ...

The founder of Human Engineering Research Laboratories at the University of Pittsburgh, Cooper holds 25 U.S. patents on products ranging from a robotic arm that can be attached to wheelchairs to help ...

Bangkok — Scientists have developed human embryo-like structures without using sperm, an egg or fertilization, offering hope for research on miscarriage and birth defects but also raising fresh ...

Andrei Georgescu, PhD, CEO of Vivodyne, was hoping to couple his interests in science and engineering when he chose UPenn for his graduate research. His goal was to build on his background in ...