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 Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 5:00 pm Post subject: New Bionic Hand Gives Amputee a Grip — And a Sense of |
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Dennis Aabo S?rensen lost his left hand in a fireworks accident during a family holiday when he was in his mid-twenties. Last year, the 36-year old Danish man got a chance to test out a new prosthetic hand that connected to his nervous system and allowed him to grip and manipulate objects. Even more remarkably, he actually felt what he was touching for the first time in the 9 years since his accident, according to a?report published today in?Science Translational Medicine.
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