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Re-wiring brings back touch for amputated limb

Surgery opens door to prosthetics that can 'feel'.

Surgeons have managed to give an amputee not only a prosthetic arm that moves as directed by her thoughts, but also the feeling of touch — albeit in the wrong part of her body.

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Posted by Nicola Jones on February 02, 2007
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Concerning,"William Craelius, a bioengineer at Rutgers University in New Jersey. But, he warns, adding more sensory relays will complicate the device, necessitating trickier connections and wires, and making the prosthesis heavier. "The big question is, how would an individual take the thing on and off each day and do it right with only one arm?" he says."

- Make a permanent prosthesis that is put on by surgery and is never removed.

Posted by: Jami Milam | February 5, 2007 06:24 PM

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