How prosthetics went from peg legs to biolimbs

Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully grown a rat leg in a petri dish, and it could change prosthetics forever.

Eventually, this technology could allow for human hand, arm, and leg transplants without the risk of the patient's body rejecting the new limb.

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