Archeology
2,500-year-old skeleton reveals cruel punishment in ancient China
Thousands of years ago in ancient China, criminals did not simply have to go to jail, but serious crimes could be subject to extreme torture.
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Animal world
Find a way to regrow frog limbs after amputation
US researchers have managed to regrow the amputated legs of frogs, offering hope that the same could one day be achieved in humans.
Technology
The patch helps diabetics with amputation
Mexican scientists have developed a patch containing gram negative Bdellovibrio to treat infections resistant to foot ulcers, helping to save thousands of diabetics from…
Archeology
Amputation surgery is from 7,000 years ago
Surveying the skeletons, scientists believe that Stone Age humans know how to amputate their bodies to save lives.
Medicine - Health
The woman with the largest leg in the world
When the British girl Mandy Sellars was born, doctors diagnosed she could not live more than a week. But now Mandy is 36 years old, still living optimistically, and will…
Medicine - Health
Research on stem cells to reduce amputation rate
Researchers working at UC Davis Vascular Center, have embarked on a highly feasible study, involving the use of the patient's own stem cells ...
Medicine - Health
Virtual reality helps people with amputation reduce pain
The academics of the School of Computer Science and Psychological School have developed a virtual reality system that can create an illusion, the limb of a previously re…
Medicine - Health
Diabetic foot ulcers can easily lead to amputation
Foot ulcers due to diabetes (diabetes) are a leading cause of limb amputation. Ulcers can start from a very small scratch, but because they don't care, the infected pers…