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Adam Piore Explores Bioengineering's Brave New World

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Adam Piore is the author of "The Body Builders: Inside the Science of the Engineered Human." (Photo: Kellie Walsh)

From computer programs that help the blind “see” using sound to the ability to regenerate amputated limbs, new technologies have opened a new world of possibilities for the human body. But as scientists ask how much we can augment, enhance and push the human form, this new world contains a host of ethical issues. Journalist Adam Piore, author of the new book “The Body Builders,” takes us inside pioneering projects of bioengineering and the moral concerns facing the field.

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Adam Piore, former editor and correspondent, Newsweek; author, "The Body Builders: Inside the Science of the Engineered Human"<br />

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