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The impossible body

From penis enlargements to biohacking the human body: a Weekend magazine special explores how we change, control, improve and future-proof what nature gave us

22 September 2018

  • Abstract muscular black male body

    ‘We will get regular body upgrades’: what will humans look like in 100 years?

    Mechanical exoskeletons, bionic limbs, uploadable brains: six experts’ visions of 2118
  • Photograph of line of green peppers, from small to large

    ‘I wanted a truncheon in my pants’: the rise of the penis extension

    More and more men are opting for surgical penis enlargement. Is it a confidence boost, or a con?

    • Blood, spit and swabs: can you trust home medical-testing kits?

    • Edwina Brocklesby: ‘My sons join me on triathlons – we jump in the river together’

    • ‘Instead of a scar, I had a piece of art’: women on their post-mastectomy tattoos

21 September 2018

  • Serge Faguet

    Extreme biohacking: the tech guru who spent $250,000 trying to live for ever

  • Anatomist Gunther von Hagens

    Experience: I will be plastinated when I die

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