In the coolest news I have heard out of the medical community is this story from the Telegraph:

A woman fitted with the world’s first “bionic arm” controlled by thought alone has been given back a sense of feeling.

The bionic arm: Click to enlarge

Claudia Mitchell, 26, a former US marine, regained the ability to carry out simple tasks such as cutting up food when she was fitted with the prosthetic arm last year.

Now doctors have re-routed the ends of arm nerves to a patch of skin on her chest — allowing her to regain the sensation of having her lost hand touched.

A new study of her wrist, hand and elbow function found she could use the artificial limb intuitively and could perform tasks four times quicker than with a conventional prosthesis.

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