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The Quest to Replace Human Body Parts (start time: 3:06) In this week’s pledge-drive show, science writer Mary Roach discusses her latest book, Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy, which was recently released in paperback (W.W. Norton & Co.). Roach is a New York Times bestselling author of Stiff, Fuzz, Bonk, and several more books. In Replaceable You, she explores the centuries-old audacious quest to replace and improve human body parts
—sculpting noses from brass, to borrowing skin from frogs and hearts from pigs, to ongoing efforts to grow body parts from scratch using stem cells and 3D printers.
Hosts: Susan Moran, Joel Parker
Show and Executive Producer: Beth Bennett
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