Prosthetic limb physically attached to body

This is groundbreaking. [Link]

Norbert Kang, a plastic surgeon from the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, north London, said the process of merging the skin and the pin was similar to the way "that skin interacts with deer antlers".

This process had been observed in the animals "and then copied in the design of the implant that we've put into Kira", he said.

"We've been able to prove that we can get osteocutaneous integration - that's to say the soft tissue fuses with the surface of the metal."

"We can create a new generation of reconstruction" with this technique, Mr Kang added.