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...Movies are really a global business now," says TWC's David Lee. Adds co-president Michael Cole: "We're looking to incorporate...We're always gonna have one foot in Asia...
...used to really be on the back foot," says Varghese. Now he need only make a half-hour drive from his laboratory in Melbourne's inner north. "What once took me several years to do you could probably do in a few months" at the new facility, Varghese says. Given that the synchrotron has a life span of around 30 years, there's plenty of time, then, for a lot of light - and hopefully a great deal of illumination...
...doubts," says caretaker Soraida Salwala, founder of the hospital. "I had heard of prosthetics for birds and dogs, but nothing had ever been made for an elephant." So well has Motala adjusted to her new foot, however, that doctors are already designing a lighter, sturdier replacement for her made of fiberglass and silicone...
Motala may be better off than she was, but even an upgraded foot won't help her walk like a normal elephant. So cases like hers have inspired surgeons to begin experimenting with some radical new approaches that could potentially transform the field of prosthetics. One method is known as ingrowth, or osseointegration, a technique that skips the sleeves and cuffs altogether and attaches the prosthesis directly to the bone. "It is one of the hottest ideas in the field," says Dr. Denis Marcellin-Little, associate professor of orthopedics at North Carolina State University, who tried the surgery (unsuccessfully...
...humans, mainly in Scandinavia, every animal presents surgeons with a different biomechanical challenge. Attaching a leg to a nimble, bouncing animal like a kangaroo is different from creating a limb for a plodding one like an elephant. When Stumpy the kangaroo lost her hind leg, surgeons designed a prosthetic foot--held in place by a traditional stump and socket--that is made of carbon fiber, which has the ability to spring back to its original shape after it is bent. This same technique is often used to make prostheses for human runners, like the ones designed for the famous double...