Word: implanting
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...machine will soon make its way from performance art venues into our living rooms. "Just as the Internet provides interactive ways of displaying information," he says, "it may allow unexpected ways of accessing the body itself. What will be interesting is when we can miniaturize these technologies and implant them directly into the body...
...Eight years ago, on a motorcycle trip to the U.K. to visit his sister, he was in an accident and broke his neck. Except for some minor movement in his shoulders, left arm and left hand, he was paralyzed below the neck. Holgersen underwent an experimental surgical procedure to implant a neural prosthesis - an interface between an electronic device and the human nervous system - to bypass the damaged stretches of his spinal cord and restore some movement to his limbs...
...painstaking sequence, Dr. Barnard stitched the donor heart in place. First the left auricle, then the right. He joined the stub of Denise's aorta to Louis Washkansky's, her pulmonary artery to his. Finally, the veins. Assistant surgeons removed the catheters from the implant as Barnard worked. Now, almost four hours after the first incision, history's first transplanted human heart was in place. But it had not been beating since Denise died. Would it work? Barnard stepped back and ordered electrodes placed on each side of the heart and the current (25 watt-seconds) applied. The heart leaped...
...create a new embryo, biologists implant the nucleus of an adult-donor cell into an egg-cell membrane. After extracting stem cells from the embryo, scientists may be able to grow cells and organs that are genetically identical to the donor's. Those could be implanted in the donor without fear of rejection...
...Asked Wednesday when he considered the implant a success, Dr. Gray said that as a clinician it was "when we have made him better...