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Historical Highlights in Bionics and Related Medicine
Bionics has had a rich and fascinating history.In the development of arm and leg prostheses, progress has come as a slow and gradual process. In other fields, such as organ transplantation, there have been decades between the first attempts at a new procedure and the routine achievement of success. This punctuated progress has frequently been contingent on accumulating new insights from other disciplines, such as the role of the immune system in tissue rejection, or on serendipitous discovery, as was the case for several anti-rejection drugs. Rather than attempting to be comprehensive, we have portrayed in this timeline, highlights from different areas of medical research. Similarly the images, although not always connected to specific dates or events, are intended to portray both interesting artifacts from the past, and today's high-tech advances, which provocatively hint at developments yet to come.
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