Disability

A machine learning algorithm and a robot arm could help tetraplegic patients carry out more day-to-day activities.

Hydroxychloroquine, which is also used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, delayed the progression of disability in some MS patients.

The therapy, which the researchers hope to trial in humans, harnesses ‘dancing molecules’ to communicate with the body’s cells.

UK councils are using colourful artwork to encourage pedestrians to use crossings. But the science isn’t black and white.

British swimmer Dan Pepper hosts a new BBC documentary looking at the fake Paralympians that rocked the sporting world.

Why would an athlete choose to be a guide for a Paralympian? It's not just about winning.

The new treatment uses optogenetics, and combines gene engineering with technology to partially restore sight.

The Earswitch device is being designed to help people with neurological conditions communicate using a computer keyboard.

The babies have spina bifida, a condition which prevents the spine and spinal cord developing properly.

Experiments in monkeys showed that the transplants survived for three months and even started to function.

Co-host of the new BBC documentary Eugenics: Science’s Greatest Scandal, speaks to us about making the documentary and discovering what his life would’ve been like as a disabled man in Britain in the early 20th Century.

Researchers have found a way to enhance the body's 'natural mechanism' for protecting nerves from damage using a common diabetes drug.

Red-green colour blindness is a genetic condition, affecting genes on the X chromosome that code for light receptors in the eye.

Researchers in Bristol developed the drainage, irrigation and fibrinolytic therapy technique in 1998 and it was first trialled in 2003.

A new form of haptic technology has been designed that gives blind people the sensation of reading Braille, without having to touch any surfaces.

Can a smart light help people to read more easily?

The prosthesis could be a clinically viable replacement for a lost arm, scientists have said.

The new technique could take the treatment for blindness from six months down to two weeks.

The 28-year-old said taking his first steps in the suit felt like being the ‘first man on the Moon’.

Neanderthals were often ill or disabled, and many were cared for by the group.

For millions of people – physically able or not – the virtual world gives them the toolbox they need to be all that they can be.

Not quite a case of the blind leading the blind, but...

Deep learning to help teach autistic children how to read emotions more effectively.