Regenerative Nerve Interface Enhances Precision and Durability of Hand Prostheses (9 of 12) (VIDEO)

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A patient with the new interface controlling finger and thumb postures in real time. 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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P.P. Vu <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine</i> (2020)

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