Each segment traces a state-of-the-art medical technology, like liver transplants or minimally invasive heart surgery, all the way back to the tales of the maverick scientists who made it all possible.
Opponents of cloning technology argue that all forms of human cloning should be banned because the refinement of research techniques may ultimately help maverick scientists make cloned babies.
The book's version of O'Neil is much more of a straight soldier, while Jackson remains the idealistic maverick scientist.
C1 A new way to look at menstruation from a maverick scientist.
J. Craig Venter, the maverick scientist who sequenced the human genome, wants to create microbes that produce hydrogen for use as fuel.
In the media frenzy that followed, the story of a 69 year old eccentric, and maverick scientist emerged, but Seed possessed impressive credentials and was not dismissed immediately.
In the other is Celera, a company formed just two years ago by a maverick scientist who turned the project into a furious race.
Which is the original son, which is his clone and which has been secretly created, also by cloning, by a maverick scientist?
Tensions rise when Penley, a maverick scientist who has defected from the team, is mentioned.
From time to time maverick scientists advance the odd 'what if?'
