Friday, 18 May 2012


Can you build a human body?


    Drag and drop parts to find out more
    • Brain
    • Pancreas
    • Ear
    • Heart
    • Eye
    • Skin
    • Leg
    • Arm

    Production: James Gallagher, Tom Beal, Anna-Marie Lever. Design: Mark Bryson. Development: Luke Ward.
    The Bionic Bodies series on the BBC News website will be looking at how bionics can transform people's lives. We will meet a woman deciding whether to have her hand cut off for a bionic replacement and analyse the potential to take the technology even further, enhancing the body to superhuman levels. The series continues on Wednesday with a look at some of the earliest prosthetics from ancient Egypt.

    Technology has always strived to match the incredible sophistication of the human body. Now electronics and hi-tech materials are replacing whole limbs and organs in a merger of machine and man.
    Later this year a team of researchers will try out the first bionic eye implant in the UK hoping to help a blind patient see for the first time. It is one of the extraordinary medical breakthroughs in the field, which are extending life by years and providing near-natural movement for those who have lost limbs.
    Over the coming weeks, BBC News will explore the field of bionics in a series of features. We start with a selection of the latest scientific developments.
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