This book is a collection of articles covering topics such as "Little Big Science, " "Growing New Organs, " "Synthetic Life, " "Flying on Flexible Wings, " and other topics.

"Ramsay can feel his brain changing--and his body, too. He's becoming something other than himself. Maybe even something other than human. As he sets out to discover who did this to him, and why, his transformation threatens everything: his family, his job, even his freedom. Because the truth of what's happened to him is more disturbing than he could possibly imagine. His DNA has been rewritten with a genetic-engineering breakthrough beyond anything...

In a ruined, nameless city of the future, a woman named Rachel, who makes her living as a scavenger, finds a small green lump of a creature she names "Borne" entangled in the fur of Mord, a gigantic, despotic bear. Mord once prowled the corridors of the biotech organization known as the Company, which lies at the outskirts of the city, until he was experimented on, grew large, learned to fly and broke free. Driven insane by his torture at the hands...

Forming a plan to render themselves the best Microsaur sitters ever, Danny and Lin are unexpectedly challenged by a pair of rampaging T-rex twins whose antics complicate a race against time to fix the Professor's wrecked lab before they are kicked out of the Microterium.