The Body Builders: Inside the Science of the Engineered Human

For millennia, humans have tried-and often failed-to master nature and transcend our limits. But this has started to change. The new scientific frontier is the human body: the greatest engineers of our generation have turned their sights inward, and their work is beginning to revolutionize mankind.

In The Body Builders, Adam Piore takes us on a fascinating journey into the field of bioengineering-which can be used to reverse engineer, rebuild, and augment human beings-and paints a vivid port...