The body builders : inside the science of the engineered human / Adam Piore
By: Piore, Adam [author].
Publisher: New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, ©2018Edition: First Ecco paperback edition published 2018.Description: viii,376p: 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780062347152 (softcover).Subject(s): Bioengineering | Biomedical engineering | Synthetic biologyGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | TA164 .P56 2018 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000013395 |
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