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   Anthropy :verified_dragon: (anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Oct-2023 09:48:09 JST Anthropy :verified_dragon:

   Hoooly 🥞 I had not expected them to have this much success just grafting metal into bones. The bone actually grew around it, does not seem infected, and the bone mount is actually so strong the bionic hand can just be attached to it. Look at these x-rays, this is like right out of a movie, if we can replicate this to other people it's going to change prosthetics/augmentation forever.

   Revolutionary Bionic Hand Fuses With Woman's Bones, Muscles, And Nerves : ScienceAlert
   https://www.sciencealert.com/revolutionary-bionic-hand-fuses-with-womans-bones-muscles-and-nerves

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     Anthropy :verified_dragon: (anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Oct-2023 09:49:01 JST Anthropy :verified_dragon:

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     Here's the original article with all the scientific data. The fixtures appear to be made of titanium, which is nothing too special in the medical world, it does not require any external large batteries, and has actually been used for 3 full years, still using it today.

     Also here's the pics again but with the full scientific context added as alt text
     https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.adf7360@@#

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     Alexis (lexyeen@plush.city)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Oct-2023 09:50:03 JST Alexis

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     @anthropy IIRC, until EXTREMELY recently the biggest hurdle was getting skin to seal around the anchors - that might explain why cybernetics in fiction are so often depicted as requiring the augmented body to rely upon medication of some form, because just think about how dangerous and painful what's effectively multiple bone-deep wounds would be to just live with.

     They found the solution by, no shit, studying the texture of deer antler where it interfaces with the skin.

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     Anthropy :verified_dragon: (anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Oct-2023 09:50:04 JST Anthropy :verified_dragon:

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     @LexYeen RIGHT? This is like deus ex machina meets cyberpunk meets every other scifi that tried to make sense of implants by making up some scifi plot device to stabilise the body and prevent infections, but no, turns out you can just get the body to grow bone around your material and heal everything around the prosthetic? I'm still trying to understand how they pulled it off honestly

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     Alexis (lexyeen@plush.city)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Oct-2023 09:50:05 JST Alexis

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     @anthropy i am replying a second time to emphasize how huge this is

     this is first-generation cybernetics

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     Alexis (lexyeen@plush.city)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Oct-2023 09:50:06 JST Alexis

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     @anthropy holy fucking guacamole,

     transdermal osseointegrated prosthetics are advancing along the path I thought they would when I first heard of research into how the texture of deer antlers were being used to model transdermal anchor surfaces that skin could bond with