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When it comes to finger sensitivity, bigger isn't always better. http://www.physorg.com/news180120296.html Medicine & Health Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:45:43 EST news180120296 The most comprehensive study to date of the proteins in a species of salamander that can regrow appendages may provide important clues to how similar regeneration could be induced in humans. http://www.physorg.com/news180013294.html Biology Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:20:13 EST news180013294 (AP) -- A group of European scientists said Wednesday they have successfully connected a robotic hand to an amputee, allowing him to feel sensations in the artificial limb and control it with his thoughts. http://www.physorg.com/news178976346.html Medicine & Health Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:39:47 EST news178976346 The hormones, called androgens, are important in the development of masculine characteristics such as aggression and strength. It is also thought that prenatal androgens affect finger length during development in the womb. High levels of androgens, such as testosterone, increase the length of the fourth finger in comparison to the second finger. Scientists used finger ratios as an indicator of the levels of exposure to the hormone and compared this data with social behaviour in primate groups. http://www.physorg.com/news176555766.html Biology Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:17:05 EST news176555766 (PhysOrg.com) -- Developed by researchers at Lund University in Sweden and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Italy, the Smart Hand project has given patient, Robin af Ekenstam (see video) the sense of touch in his new prosthesis hand. http://www.physorg.com/news175354299.html Electronics Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:34:32 EST news175354299 (AP) -- The recipient of the world's first complete double arm transplant scratched his head and back and beamed at his doctors Wednesday, saying he was on the path to independence a year after the pioneering operation. http://www.physorg.com/news167501120.html Medicine & Health Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:40:20 EST news167501120 (AP) -- The nation's first double hand transplant patient can wriggle his new fingers a litte bit now and grab a tennis ball, but what he really wants to do is be able to feel his wife's hands when he holds them. http://www.physorg.com/news167028179.html Medicine & Health Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:44:04 EST news167028179 The mystery of genetic disease is only partially solved with the identification of a mutated gene. Often, the pattern of disease - the features or disorders associated with it - vary in type and severity among those who are affected. Scientists, physicians and patients all ask why. http://www.physorg.com/news161182673.html Medicine & Health Sun, 10 May 2009 13:58:21 EST news161182673 (PhysOrg.com) -- A prototyped capacitive touch panel was demonstrated by Mitsubishi Electric Corp at the Interaction 2009 in Tokyo, Japan. The 3D touch panel can detect not only x- and y- coordinates but also its z- coordinates by detecting the distance between a finger and panel. Screen size is approximately 5.7 inches with a resolution of 640 x 480 pixels. http://www.physorg.com/news156159930.html Technology Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:46:20 EST news156159930 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at MIT recently found an elegant solution to a sticky scientific problem in basic fluid mechanics: why water doesn't soak into soil at an even rate, but instead forms what look like fingers of fluid flowing downward. http://www.physorg.com/news148225444.html Physics Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:44:04 EST news148225444 (PhysOrg.com) -- One of the Bond Girls in the new James Bond movie is drawing attention to a relatively common congenital condition called polydactyly -- extra fingers or toes. http://www.physorg.com/news145198178.html Medicine & Health Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:49:38 EST news145198178 The latest breakthrough in a 120 year-old debate on the evolution of the bird wing was published in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, October 3, by Alexander Vargas and colleagues at Yale University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. http://www.physorg.com/news142250465.html Biology Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:01:05 EST news142250465 Tetrapods, the first four-legged land animals, are regarded as the first organisms that had fingers and toes. Now researchers at Uppsala University can show that this is wrong. Using medical x-rays, they found rudiments of fingers in the fins in fossil Panderichthys, the `transitional animal,` which indicates that rudimentary fingers developed considerably earlier than was previously thought. http://www.physorg.com/news141278840.html Biology Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:07:20 EST news141278840 Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and collaborators are using minute, naturally occurring proteins called zinc fingers to engineer T cells to one day treat AIDS in humans. http://www.physorg.com/news134039435.html Medicine & Health Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:10:35 EST news134039435