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sea-maid submitted, created time 2 months 3 weeks (sciencenow.sciencemag.org)
If you hide your real hand under a cloth and place a rubber or plastic hand where your real hand ought to be and then have someone touch both real and false hands in the same way, you will begin to feel as if the sensation is coming from the false hand. Scientists have used this technique for years to figure out how people perceive body boundaries.
The spooky part? The body temperature of the real hand will decrease. So will sensation. 
Stem cells from menstrual blood save limbs
sea-maid submitted, created time 3 months 1 day (www.newscientist.com)
Stem cells derived from human menstrual blood have, in mice, prevented limbs with restricted blood flow from withering. Trials in humans facing amputations are expected to start next year.
The military AFIRMs regenerative medicine
Darkfrog submitted, created time 4 months 3 weeks (www.popsci.com)
As of this past March, thirty different research institutions have joined to become the Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine (AFIRM). With $250-million in funding, they plan to expand ideas like the "pixie dust" limb regrowth method that was mentioned on DiscoveR8 a few months back. Most interestingly, there are plans for a handheld spritzer that would spray keratinocytes directly onto burns and wounds.
I followed the links to this one. A few blogs wrote articles based on this one, but focusing on just the burn sprayer, which they've nicknamed the "stem cell gun
Monkeys show amazing learning curve with thought-controlled prosthetics
Darkfrog submitted, created time 5 months 3 weeks (www.nytimes.com)
Monkeys with small (as in a mm or so wide) grid implanted just beneath their skulls have shown themselves able to control a mechanical arm with their thoughts.
This is an NYT writeup of an article originally published in Nature. Scientists first taught the monkeys how to control a mechanical arm with a joystick, then implanted a small grid, only a mm or so wide, onto the motor centers of their brains. The monkeys' own arms were then gently restrained. The scientists used a computer to move the arm at first. The article uses the expression, "teaching with biofeedback
Injured vets may regrow body parts
jerry submitted, created time 5 months 3 weeks (edition.cnn.com)
The news shows salamander-inspired therapy may aid injured vets. A wounded American soldier underwent a history-making procedure that could help him regrow the finger that was lost to a bomb attack in Baghdad last year...
Amputee runner back in the game, but are the data sound?
Darkfrog submitted, created time 6 months 1 day (sciencenow.sciencemag.org)
The fastest man on no legs has been un-disqualified from the Olympics. Oscar Pistorius, who runs on two prosthetic feet called Cheetahs, had been barred from inclusion in the Olympics because a team of scientists hired by the International Association of Athletics Federations ruled that his prostheses gave him an unfair advantage. A new study, performed at Mr. Pistorius's request, shows otherwise.
This article, unlike some of the more human-interest ones I've read, really delves into the studies themselves, how they were performed and what may have been wrong with them
Darkfrog submitted, created time 10 months 1 week (www.nytimes.com)
The fastest man on no legs, South African double amputee Oscar Pistorius has been declined for inclusion in the 2008 Olympic games -- because his prosthetic legs, officials claim, give him an unfair advantage.
NY Times is being tricky again. Here's the URL: (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/14/sports/othersports/14cnd-pistorius
"Fastest man on no legs" has unfair advantage at the Olympics?
Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 year 6 months (www.nytimes.com)
It was bound to happen sooner or later. Oscar Pistorius, who had both legs amputated when he was a baby for medical reasons, can now run the one hundred meter dash in under eleven seconds. He wants to cut that time down even further so that he can run for his native South Africa in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
The question, though, is whether his light prosthetic legs give him an unfair advantage over the rest of us stringy meatballs. I.A.A.F
Electrical "switch" found for limb regeneration in amphibians
Hecate submitted, created time 1 year 8 months (www.nature.com)
Researchers at the Forsyth Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology (Boston, MA), have been able to use electrical currents to stimulate limb regeneration in tadpoles, even older tadpoles that have naturally lost their ability to regenerate on their own. I think this article is excellent for educational purposes. It is a good example of how researchers can search for the cause of a given phenomenon -- like limb regeneration -- by knocking a trait down or out. Here, they looked for factors that would stop limb regeneration but not impede general wound healing.
touch, heat, vibrations -- targeted reinnervation improves prosthetics
Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 year 9 months (www.sciencenews.org)
Another new step for prosthetics. If they can master both motor and sensory effects, then the biggest hurdle left between the current state of the business and true usefulness is the weight. Many amputees report that prosthetics are just too heavy to be practical.
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