ScienceWorld[R]: body shop.(bionic body parts)(Brief Article)

From: Science World | Date: December 10, 2001 | Copyright information

Your body is an amazing combination of pumps, levers, filters, and electrical networks. No human has ever devised a machine as complex as your body. But scientists are hard at work designing and building replacement parts you may need one day. If an accident or disease damaged a bone or an organ, these replacements would help you function more normally. The parts are bionic, or engineered to mimic real body parts. Today, replacement parts exist for many bones and joints, but very few organs. Here's a sample of the latest bionic body parts in the works.

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