A biohybrid hand which can move objects and do a scissor gesture has been built by a team at the University of Tokyo and Waseda University in Japan. The researchers used thin strings of lab-grown ...

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Fusako Goto was a toddler in Fukuoka, Japan, when she started using chopsticks to eat. At age 65, she now teaches elementary school students in Litchfield how to use the Japanese eating utensils.

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