Surgeon Gabriel Weston reveals the extraordinary people who are helping international scientists make medical breakthroughs and advance knowledge of the human body. Meet the talented scientists and resilient patients at the heart of these stories, who are leading right to the edge of scientific understanding as they explore the human body’s endless capacity to adapt and survive. Surgeon Weston meets a girl whose heart has formed outside of her ribcage; a man who can spend nine minutes underwater without taking a breath; and a paralysed man who’s regaining movement thanks to a chip in his brain that can read his brain signals.