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SCIENCE BRIEFING

Times Staff and Wire Reports

When patients had both hands transplanted, their brains reestablished connections much more quickly with the left hand than the right, a team of researchers in France reports.

The sample was small, just two patients, but both had been right-handed before losing their hands, and both followed a pattern of reconnection with their brain that was quicker for the left hand.

The study was reported in Tuesday’s edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

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