A prosthetic limb doesn't represent the need to replace loss anymore.

There's a limb prosthetic up here, similar actually one on the soldier that's come back from Iraq.

Tom has a prosthetic leg.

Mary has a prosthetic arm.

The phantom limb they'll say, But doctor, the phantom limb is paralyzed.

Abdullah Out On A Limb

Dean Kamen previews a new prosthetic arm

You've heard of phantom limb pain?

Charles Limb Building the musical muscle

Charles Limb Your brain on improv

Sheila Nirenberg A prosthetic eye to treat blindness

... above the limb, yes, it would be difficult ...

Tom was killed when a tree limb fell on him.

I mean, people Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do.

(Text ... any person with a below the knee limb could do this.

He used the example of a child born with one limb missing.

The whole limb extends out. The body flexes backwards just a spectacular movement.

Because the first generation is exoskeletal, it's wrapped around the leg, around the affected limb.

She went out on a limb defending him, and now she has lost her job.

Tom went out on a limb to help Mary and she didn't even thank him.

The cancer is growing as this red, huge mass in the hind limb of this animal.

Charles Limb This is a plastic MIDI piano keyboard that we use for the jazz experiments.

Because obviously, if it's breaking snails, the poor limb must be disintegrating. And indeed it does.

So, this what I saw, on every single mantis shrimp limb, whether it's a spearer or a smasher, is a beautiful saddle shaped structure right on the top surface of the limb. And you can see it right here.

Think of this action as akin to a surgery that replaces a healthy leg with an artificial limb.

For four euros, the Indonesian volcano porters risk life and limb carrying 70 kilos of sulphur along steep stone paths.

We risked life and limb to do it, and lived very much on the edge and we lived very intensely.

14 hours of prosthetic make up to get into a creature that had articulated paws, claws and a tail that whipped around, like a gecko.

So not only can we create a prosthetic for the visually impaired, but we can also investigate how people literally make sense of the world.

Using a grid the size of your thumb, with 32 electrodes on the surface of his brain, Tim uses his thoughts to control an advanced prosthetic arm.

There are some drug treatments, but they're only effective on a small fraction of the population. And so, for the vast majority of patients, their best hope for regaining sight is through prosthetic devices.

So, you have a patient with a phantom limb. If the arm has been removed and you have a phantom, and you watch somebody else being touched, you feel it in your phantom.

Inventor Dean Kamen previews the prosthetic arm he s developing at the request of the US Department of Defense. His quiet commitment to using technology to solve problems while honoring the human spirit has never been more clear.

I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI or orthopedic consult.

So, I said, OK, this proves my theory about learned paralysis and the critical role of visual input, but I'm not going to get a Nobel Prize for getting somebody to move his phantom limb.

But one of the convenient things about being an arthropod is that you have to molt. And every three months or so these animals molt, and they build a new limb and it's no problem.

Athlete, actor and activist Aimee Mullins talks about her prosthetic legs she's got a dozen amazing pairs and the superpowers they grant her speed, beauty, an extra 6 inches of height ... Quite simply, she redefines what the body can be.

In Uruguay, President Tabaré Vázquez went out on a limb simply by hosting Bush, given that his problems with his Chávez friendly neighbor in Argentina, Nestor Kirchner, can only worsen as a result of these dangerous acquaintances.

In Uruguay, President Tabaré Vázquez went out on a limb simply by hosting Bush, given that his problems with his Chávez friendly neighbor in Argentina, Nestor Kirchner, can only worsen as a result of these dangerous acquaintances.

It's going to go inside something that we use in CAT scans and MRIs of whatever is their good arm, to make silicon rubber, then coat it, and paint it in 3D exact mirror image of their other limb.

Today, I have over a dozen pair of prosthetic legs that various people have made for me, and with them I have different negotiations of the terrain under my feet, and I can change my height I have a variable of five different heights.

Here are three sets of firing patterns. The top one is from a normal animal, the middle one is from a blind animal that's been treated with this encoder transducer device, and the bottom one is from a blind animal treated with a standard prosthetic.

As the seafaring public continues to risk life and limb when they board the ships that navigate our waters, it is clear that the need for stricter maritime regulation and sea traffic management is not only imminent but also absolute.

Musician and researcher Charles Limb wondered how the brain works during musical improvisation so he put jazz musicians and rappers in an fMRI to find out. What he and his team found has deep implications for our understanding of creativity of all kinds.

Charles Limb Now despite everything going for this child in terms of family support and simple infused learning, there is a limitation to what a child who's deaf, an infant who was born deaf, has in this world in terms of social, educational, vocational opportunities.