In Finger: Prosthetics Re-Wired for Sense of Touch

Researchers in Chicago say they've helped amputees to feel sensation as if they still had their missing hands by surgically re-routing the nerves that transmit that feeling. As Stephanie Lecci reports, they say that renewed sense of touch could lead to better prosthetic limbs. It had been 19 months since Claudia Mitchell lost her arm in a motorcycle accident. But one day in 2005, she suddenly was ...Finger