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Hacking the human body
For centuries researchers have searched for ways to assist, rebuild and augment the human body. High-tech prosthetics, tissue regeneration and pharmaceutical engineering are just a few ways that scientists are pushing boundaries in the field of bioengineering. Adam Piore, author of The Body Builders: Inside the Science of the Engineered Human, joins Hari Sreenivasan.