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Published online 2 February 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070129-14
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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.
When Claudia Mitchell presses an area on her chest, where surgeons re-wired the nerves that used to run to her hand, it feels to her as if her fingers are being touched.
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