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Lower half of a skeleton with an apparently amputated left leg
31,000-Year-Old Skeleton Reveals Oldest Known Surgery
A Stone Age individual’s left leg healed after being amputated just above the foot, allowing them to survive for six to nine years after the procedure was performed, researchers say.
31,000-Year-Old Skeleton Reveals Oldest Known Surgery
31,000-Year-Old Skeleton Reveals Oldest Known Surgery

A Stone Age individual’s left leg healed after being amputated just above the foot, allowing them to survive for six to nine years after the procedure was performed, researchers say.

A Stone Age individual’s left leg healed after being amputated just above the foot, allowing them to survive for six to nine years after the procedure was performed, researchers say.

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Tiny Nerve-Cooling Implant Relieves Pain in Rats
Shafaq Zia | Jul 1, 2022 | 3 min read
The device can chill nerves as small as a few millimeters across, but more testing and modifications are necessary before it could relieve pain in humans.
A frog partially submerged in water looking straight ahead
Drug Cocktail Triggers Regeneration of Amputated Frog Legs
Dan Robitzski | Jan 26, 2022 | 3 min read
A new chemical treatment allowed African clawed frogs, which normally don’t regenerate limbs, to regrow functional hind legs following amputation.
Frogs Have a Bioelectric Mirror
Catherine Offord | Jan 1, 2019 | 2 min read
Amputation of one limb triggers a rapid electric response that reflects the injury in the opposite one, researchers find.
Gaining Proprioception with Prosthetics
Bob Grant | May 31, 2017 | 2 min read
New surgical techniques may help amputees feel more enmeshed with their artificial limbs.
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