First ‘bionic woman’ says she has her life back

THE first ever partly ‘bionic woman’ has been introduced to the world by American doctors, after she was successfully ‘re-wired’ to accept a new bionic arm.

Claudia Mitchell, a former Marine who lost her left arm at the shoulder in a motorbike accident, now has a replacement she can control by her thoughts alone. The arm works by detecting the movements of a chest muscle that has been rewired to the remnants of nerves that once went to her real limb.

Ms Mitchell, 26, can now fold clothes, eat a banana and do the washing up.