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The University of Michigan Regenerative Peripheral Nerve Interface, or RPNI, amplifies nerve signals in the arm in order to be recorded and used to control an advanced prosthetic hand. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Mar. 4, 2020, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by P.P. Vu at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI; and colleagues was titled, "A regenerative peripheral nerve interface allows real-time control of an artificial hand in upper limb amputees."
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[Credit: Steve Alvey/University of Michigan Engineering]
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