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Bertolt Meyer, a professor by day and DJ by night, was born without the lower half of his left arm. His prosthetic is designed with two electrodes that sit on the skin and pick up signals from his muscles in order to move the hand and fingers at the end, but the design makes it … Read more
My childhood was spent in the house built in the 1870s by my great-grandfather Matthew Wyatt. He was born in 1837, the year of Queen Victoria’s accession to the throne, and he was a Victorian through and through. The house was Victorian in every detail. Every stick of furniture, every piece of cutlery, the wallpaper, … Read more
A cancer-surviving toddler who was born with an abnormally large tongue has had life-changing surgery to make it smaller. Baker Roth’s parents hope the procedure will help him eat and breathe easier, and allow him to make sounds so he can eventually talk. The 19-month-old was born with Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS), a rare overgrowth disorder … Read more
A woman has given birth to a ‘three-parent baby’ in the first ever clinical trial to test the controversial procedure. The 32-year-old Greek woman had four failed IVF attempts before she heard about the trial by Spanish doctors. The Barcelona-based team used a technique called maternal spindle transfer (MST) to put DNA from one of her … Read more
A baby who weighed a tiny 1lb 9oz after being born at just 24 weeks and three days is finally home. River Willis arrived on July 27 last year via emergency C-section after his mother Cara Willis’ placenta came away from the wall of her womb – putting both their lives at risk. The newborn … Read more