BBC News - Bionic Bodies

21 March 2012 Last updated at 10:42

Can you build a human body?

An interactive guide to some of the latest developments in bionic body parts

Building the Six-Million-Dollar Man

Is it possible to use machinery to build a real-life Six-Million-Dollar Man?

'Day in the life with my bionic body' Watch

Patrick Kane, 14, has a bionic arm and leg after limb loss from severe blood poisoning as a baby

Bionics: The next generation A new generation of bionics can connect wirelessly with the nervous system and feel

Will we grow replacement hands? Can we build the tissues and organs need to repair the human body?

Plastic heart gives dad new life A father dying from heart failure is given the UK's first totally artificial heart that allows him to leave hospital and await a transplant at home.

Soldier's mind-control bionic op A British soldier travels to Austria for a bionic arm he will be able to control with his mind

Features and Analysis

Cut my hand off?

Woman considers opting for bionic replacement
In pictures

Prosthetic limbs through the ages
Bionic future

Thought-controlled wheelchairs and nerve-controlled prosthetics - bionic innovations detailed
Man swaps hand for bionic one

An Austrian man has chosen to have his hand cut off so that it can be replaced with a bionic one
Pioneering bionic legs

Robotic legs developed by two Scottish engineers go on sale