Can ‘biohackers’ change what it means to be human?

Meet the transhumanists attempting to take our biology to the next level

Words: Oliver Pickup

What does it mean to be human? This existential question has powered the beating heart of progress for millennia. Yet in 2017, as nascent technologies fuse physical, digital and biological worlds, it has never been more complex – and critical – to define the age-old question.

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