Biotech choices

Things aren’t always what they seem to be, and that’s becoming truer all the time, thanks to medicine’s increasing ability to shrink, lengthen, enhance, restore, bulk up and reduce.  The ordinary have never seemed, well, more ordinary:

"Everywhere you turn, people are engineering their bodies to fit in. Chinese people are lengthening their legs with surgery to raise their status and career prospects. American men are bulking up on steroids to look good in gyms. American women are getting 300,000 breast implants a year. Some are having toes trimmed to fit fashionable shoes."

Read it all here. Via No Left Turns