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As badass artificial limbs go, it probably doesn't get any better than Rose McGowan's machine gun leg from Planet Terror. But that's probably pretty hard to walk on, so a team from the mechanical engineering department at the Georgia Institute of Technology would suggest you use their artificial bone instead. Professor Andrés García and his collaborators recently managed to create a synthetic bone substitute that mimics the strength and complexity of natural bone — and their material has already carried its weight inside a living organism for several weeks. More »
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