How to Grow a Human: Adventures in How We Are Made and Who We Are

The award-winning science writer shares "a winding romp through advances in cell biology [that] pushes readers to ponder the boundaries of life" (Science).

In the summer of 2017, scientists removed a tiny piece of flesh from Philip Ball's arm and turned it into a rudimentary "mini-brain." The skin cells, removed from his body, did not die but were instead transformed into nerve cells that independently arranged themselves into a dense network and communicated with each other, exchanging the...