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Scientists hope fake nerves could offer sense of touch for amputees with prosthetic limbs - Daily Mail 2nd November 2009
"Artificial nerves that allow people with false limbs to feel the heat from a coffee cup or the touch of another person's hand are being developed by scientists.
'Cyber-nerves' are created from a revolutionary material called Pedot that conducts electricity like a wire and which can encourage the growth of new cells."
Scientists build bones from old bits of wood - Daily Mail 1st September 2009
Scientists have developed artificial bones made from bits of old wood.
The wooden bones are designed to be used as grafts in patients who need to replace parts of their own skeleton damaged by injury or disease.
Doctors plan to use tiny fragments of the fake bone to help stimulate the body's own repair process. Although the body can grow replacement bone after injury, the tiny cells and blood vessels that spring up need something to cling to.
British scientists develop a cybrog arm that is controlled by thoughts alone - Daily Mail 13th July 2009
A mechanical arm that is controlled by thought alone has been cleared for human trials.
If successful, the cyborg-like limb could radically change the lives of amputees and victims of paralysis.
It has already been tested on two monkeys, who were able to use it to feed themselves.
Scientists build first prosthetic bone made from wood - The Times 24th June 2009
Scientists have developed the first prosthetic bone material that is made from wood.
The structure of wood, which features pores and channels, is very similar to the interior of bones. But so far it had been seen as an unsuitable candidate from which to make prostheses as it would erode and rot inside the body.
'The NHS could not meet my needs' - The Times 23rd March 2009
Albert Thomson was only six days into the war in Iraq when he lost his left leg after a Warrior armoured vehicle accidentally opened fire on him.
He was treated in an NHS hospital in Roehampton and, though he praises the care he receives, he says that the civilian system did not have the right resources. “I was in the same queue as everybody else,” he said. “The NHS couldn't supply what I needed.”
Finn creates USB 'finger drive' - BBC Health News 17th March 2009
A Finnish computer programmer who lost one of his fingers in a motorcycle accident has made himself a prosthetic replacement with a USB drive attached.
Jerry Jalava uses the 2GB memory stick, accessed by peeling back the "nail", to store photos, movies and programmes.
With five pairs of legs, I feel 10 feet tall! The boy, 7, who doesn't let a double amputation hold him back - Daily Mail 11th March 2009
He has short ones for sitting and climbing and long fancy ones for when he wants to run really, really fast.
Cody McCasland was born without a working set of legs - but now has pairs for just about any occasion.
The seven-year-old has a rare condition called Sacral Agenesis which caused deformities to his spine in the womb.
Sporty student Evan Reynolds tells of his joy at bionic hand - The Times 20th January 2009
A man who lost his left hand in an accident three years ago has been fitted with the world’s most sophisticated prosthetic limb.
Evan Reynolds, 19, took only minutes to learn how to manipulate the i-LIMB, which is operated by tiny sensors resting against his arm muscles.
Bionic hand gives student new lease of life - The Telegraph 20th January 2009
A student who lost his left hand in a car accident has been fitted with the world's most advanced prosthetic limb.
Teenager who lost arm in car accident is fitted with £10,000 bionic limb - Daily Mail 19th January 2009
A teenage boy, whose dream of joining the army was destroyed when his hand was ripped off in a car accident, has been fitted with a £10,000 bionic limb.
Evan Reynolds, 19, was sitting in the passenger seat with his hand resting on the wound-down window one evening in 2006, when the car scraped a wooden post at the exit to the car park. Mr Reynolds' hand was taken off instantly.
Student fitted with bionic hand - BBC Health News 19th January 2009
A student who had his hand ripped off in an accident has become the second person in the UK to be fitted with a revolutionary bionic replacement.
Evan Reynolds, 19, from Haslemere, Surrey, said it took him minutes to get used to the prosthetic, which has five separately working fingers.
Artificial fingers help a Southport guitarist play again - Southport Visiter 7th November 2008
A MUSICIAN who lost four fingers in a work accident is set to pick up his guitar on stage again after being fitted with artificial digits.
Father-of-two Neil Scallion, from Chester Road, Southport, faced the prospect of never again being able to play with his band The Blueshounds after losing fingers and part of his thumb four years ago in an accident involving a circular saw.
Bionic hand among top inventions of 2008 - The Telegraph 6th October 2008
The world's first commercially available bionic hand has been recognised as one of the top inventions of 2008.
Guitarist Neil Scallion: Op gives him 4 new fingers - Liverpool Echo 29th October 2008
A GUITARIST who lost four fingers in a works accident can play again thanks to experts at a Merseyside hospital.
Southport father-of-two Neil Scallion was fitted with prosthetic fingers after losing the digits and part of his thumb four years ago in an accident involving a circular saw.
Two-year-old girl prepares for her new prosthetic hands - The Telegraph 11th September 2008
A two-year-old girl who lost both her hands after contracting meningitis has been fitted with a silicone glove in preparation for a new set of prosthetic hands.
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