Jonathan Perez de Alderete

These university students have found a way to make prosthetic limbs affordable to the masses

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The fact is, prosthetics can change the course of someone’s life. But they’re usually prohibitively expensive — available only to the well-insured and the well-to-do. But a team of graduate students in Massachusetts say they’ve found a way to build artificial limbs for just a few dollars, potentially making these life-changing devices available all over the world.