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|Description=Claudia Mitchell is one of the world’s first volunteers, and the first woman, to undergo nerve-rerouting (targeted muscle reinnervation) surgery, as well as getting a brain-controlled prosthetic. This prosthetic arm is controlled with her mind! Mitchell truly is a bionic pioneer.  
  
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Revision as of 21:12, 12 October 2011

Photograph of the week
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Claudia Mitchell is one of the world’s first volunteers, and the first woman, to undergo nerve-rerouting (targeted muscle reinnervation) surgery, as well as getting a brain-controlled prosthetic. This prosthetic arm is controlled with her mind! Mitchell truly is a bionic pioneer.

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