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The body builders : inside the science of the engineered human / Adam Piore.

by Piore, Adam.

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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins, [2017]

Bioengineering.

Biomedical engineering.

Synthetic biology.

9780062347145 (hc.)

376 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages [353-366]) and index.

Moving. The bionic man who builds bionic people : replicating the way we move ; The birth of Bamm-Bamm : decoding the genome and rewriting it ; The man with the pixie dust : regenerative medicine and the quest to regrow limbs -- Sensing. The woman who can see with her ears : neuroplasticity and learning pills ; Soldiers with Spidey sense : intuition and implicit learning ; The telepathy technician : decoding the brain and imagined speech -- Thinking. the boy who remembers everything : Viagra for the brain ; The surgeon conducting the symphony : DBS and the power of electricity ; Sudden savants : unleashing the inner muse.

A tour of the current revolution in human augmentation explores how the world's most innovative engineers are helping people repair traumatic injuries while transcending physical and mental limitations.

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