biohybrid limb research

I am a pacifist. If humans were capable of living together, we wouldn’t need this… Anyway… This piece of information feeds my reflection on cyborgs: read the article by Wendy Y. Lawton for the George Street Journal (now Inside Brown journal): The Research group exploring limb loss hopes biohybrid will bridge gap between human and machine. Scientists based at Brown and MIT receive $7.2 million from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Dec. 10, 2004!

Now, through $7.2 million from the Department of Veterans Affairs, a team of researchers is working to restore natural movement to amputees - particularly Iraq veterans. Within five years, scientists based at Brown and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology hope to have created “biohybrid” limbs that will use regenerated tissue, lengthened bone, titanium prosthetics and implantable sensors that allow an amputee to use nerves and brain signals to move an arm or leg. WL