Surgeons test-drive the amputation of the future with a mail-order limb, rerouted nerve, and prosthetic hand that grips like the real thing By GIDEON GIL

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Surgeons test-drive the amputation of the future with a mail-order limb, rerouted nerve, and prosthetic hand that grips like the real thing

By GIDEON GIL

KAYANA SZYMCZAK FOR STAT

Surgeons are inventing a new way to perform arm amputations that might allow patients to move their prosthetic hands more like real ones.

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