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A helping hand

A PROSTHETIC with fingertip precision was demonstrated at Edinburgh University yesterday.

The Touch Bionic iLIMB hand restores dexterous manipulation capabilities to an upper limb amputee. It is shown holding open a book by 17th century physician William Harvey who showed that blood is pumped around the body by the heart. Picture Stewart Attwood

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