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1) The touch
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"Andrew Jones is a young doctor with an amazing gift: his abilities in surgery are astonishing. But when he cannot save a young woman at the scene of a fatal car accident, Jones abandons his gift and shuns the operating room. Lara Blair owns a Chicago-based biomedical engineering company developing a surgical tool that will duplicate precisely the movement of a surgeon's hands, eliminating human error during surgical procedures. Lara has pursued the...
3) Bionic eyes
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Series
Pub. Date
c2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Bionic eyes are a Modern Engineering Marvel! In this engaging title, readers will explore the history of bionic eyes from early attempts to use electricity to aid vision to the development of computer chips that led to eye and brain implants. Mark Humayun and his development of the bionic eye implant is featured, and colorful infographics show eye anatomy and how implants work. See the future of bionic eyes as scientists work to restore sight in different...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"Meet scientists who are on the verge of breakthroughs in biomedical engineering. From encouraging the body to regenerate damaged bone and muscle tissue to re-routing visual stimuli to the brain to help blind people see, these discoveries will change medicine radically."--
5) Bionics
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Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Explores the history of bionics and how it has been used to replace body parts, fix malfunctions, and assist the senses.
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Pub. Date
2017
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Fareed Zakaria GPS Book of the Week
Weaving together vivid storytelling and groundbreaking science, The Body Builders explores the current revolution in human augmentation, which is helping us to triumph over the limitations and constraints we have long accepted as an inevitable part of being 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...
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Just a tiny flap of pig tissue, but such an influence in Diana’s life. She began by sewing the tissue into heart valves, moved on to engineering a new concept modifying the orifice of the valve, and finally founded a medical device manufacturing company. Her childhood on a farm, with its exposure to incessant hard work and the pain of childhood sexual abuse, instilled in her the strength and determination necessary to conquer a mystifying and debilitating...
10) Eve & Adam
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Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
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After Evening Spiker has a terrible accident, she is rushed to her mother's billion-dollar research facility. Eve's mother gives her a special project while she heals--to design the perfect boy. Using her mother's experimental research, Eve plays God and brings to life a boy with the perfect body, brain, and personality and names him Adam. But there are others that want this ability to clone humans, and suddenly Eve and Adam are in grave danger.
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Collects three story arcs and a full cover gallery featuring Steve Austin, the iconic action hero of The six million dollar man. First, Austin is plunged into a dangerous world of espionage and high adventure where he is reunited with the Bionic Woman and must face a maniacal enemy built from deadly technology. Second, Austin tracks a deadly conspiracy to foreign territory where he discovers his strangest adversary yet, the legendary Bigfoot. Finally,...
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