Bionic man becoming a reality
4th Apr 2006, 12:56 GMT
In the mid-1970s, when scientists in a popular TV series rebuilt a wounded, barely-living test pilot into the world's first bionic man, making him "better, stronger, faster," the field of medical bionics was the stuff of science fiction. No longer. This week, at Experimental Biology 2006, some of the leading scientists in the rapidly expanding field of bionics explain how much of what was once fiction is today at least partial reality -- including electronically-powered legs, arms, and eyes like those given TV's Six Million Dollar Man 30-plus years ago. read more
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