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Chemistry World October 18, 2007 Ned Stafford	Artificial Cornea Set for Clinical Trials Next Year A European research team has developed a polymer-based artificial cornea that could go into human trials as soon as next spring. If successful, the corneas could help the millions of blind people worldwide who are unable to get a transplant because of the dearth of human donors.
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National Defense May 2005 Joe Pappalardo	Casualties of War Leading research at the Department of Veterans Affairs is aimed at helping soldiers who lost limbs in combat. At the core of this program are new technologies meant to seamlessly fuse prosthetics with the human body.
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Technology Research News December 17, 2003 Patch & Smalley	Body handles nanofiber better The human body doesn't care for artificial materials, and responds to invasions by building scar tissue around foreign objects. A study shows that scar tissue formation might have more to do with the surface features of the intrusion than material it is made from.
Popular Mechanics September 27, 2007 Wayne Ma	Bionic Woman: Hollywood Sci-Fi vs. Reality Experts tell us which, if any, of TV's new Bionic Woman far-out science is (super)humanly possible.
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IEEE Spectrum February 2008 Willie D. Jones	Engineers Work on Laser-Based Brain-Machine Interface for Prosthetic Arm Laser stimulation of nerves may light the way to better nervous-system feedback for prosthetics
IEEE Spectrum March 2009 Neil Savage	Superstrong Artificial Muscles and More From New Nanotube Material Sheets of carbon nanotubes could make strong, stretchy artificial muscles with amazing properties
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IEEE Spectrum March 2012 Jose M. Carmena	How to Control a Prosthesis With Your Mind New brain-machine interfaces that exploit the plasticity of the brain may allow people to control prosthetic devices in a natural way.
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