Medical Genetics

When a woman dies in agony—her veins filled with a crystalline substance that defies medical explanation—it becomes the first sign of an unstoppable catastrophe. Dr. Michael Bond has seen death in all its forms. As a combat physician, he thought nothing could shock him anymore—until he examines the impossible: human DNA being systematically rewritten from within. Now Bond and his elite team—brilliant pathologist Dr. Clarice Washington and epidemiologist Dr. Nathan Shaw—are in a desperate race against an adversary who has weaponized evolution itself. A modified prion disease is ...

Secrets kill. Perfection destroys. A hardened detective and his idealistic, young deputy investigate the attempted murder of a child and uncover a secret with earth-shattering implications. ∞ Near Halti Fell, Northern Finland, the last of humanity has survived four hundred years in a series of crumbling habitats built to last fifty. Outside, the Earth is an irradiated wasteland of sand and desolate cities known as the scour. In the scour, nothing survives. Chief Investigator Linus Halla is tired of violence and death in cramped, rusted boxes. After twenty years on the job, he’s ready to...

Recognized as one of the best in his field, surgeon, academic, and philanthropist, Dr. Sharad Paul combines everyday health with evolutionary biology and explains how to improve your overall wellness by following a diet and exercise plan according to your gene type. Starting with our brains, this book covers everything from skin and muscles, to hearts, diets, and stress management.

What would you do if have weeks if not days to live? Jake Preston races across the country and miles away from Boston to a woman who has no idea what power she has. Hidden away in her house is a formula with the key to an experiment that is killing him. But he isn’t the only one desperate for the formula. A person with their own agenda is willing to kill to get to it first. Margot Davenport’s quiet life erupts when Jake shows up at her door with news that her brother’s death is no accident. When people start dying and Margot realizes she might be next, is she too late to vanquish her ...

Your next selfie. Your last breath. ☤☠♥ When cutting-edge nanotechnology creates a healthcare revolution, Brianna Harmond and her friends hack the government’s project for their high school science fair, and create an app that can alter appearance with the swipe of your thumb. As the dangers of gene-splicing manifest in unpredictable ways, the band of misfits gain powers that border on the supernatural, while falling deeper into an underground world of DNA hackers and body modification. As her darkest secrets are made public and her techie research cripples her little sister, ...

When Donahue walks out, Dr. Chloe McGuire's marriage implodes. He teaches her humiliation. When a passionate friendship blooms with Dr. Zakia Kigamba during their medical rounds through Kenya, she learns resilience. The Kinship Of All Creatures tells the story of Dr. Chloe McGuire, a genetics researcher at Cornell University. She goes to Kenya as a delegate to the conference of the United Nations Decade for Women, where each distinct face, every glowing shape comes together in a happening, an encounter, an explosion of euphoria. Though diverse in their goals and how they could reach them, ...

Grace Lord, combat surgeon in training, has just landed her dream job aboard a medical space station. Attacked by a powerful, gorilla-enhanced combat soldier the moment she steps onto the station, she quickly realizes this assignment will be far from typical. She treats the wounded space marines of the Conglomerate under the watchful eyes of stalking androids who all look alike and a mentor with a serious case of megalomania. Meeting a drop-dead gorgeous psychiatrist almost makes it worth it, until the station docks with a mysterious vessel.

Carl Zimmer investigates one of the biggest questions of all: what is life? The answer seems obvious until you try to seriously answer it. Is the apple sitting on your kitchen counter alive, or is only the apple tree it came from deserving of the word? If we can’t answer that question here on Earth, how will we know when and if we discover alien life on other worlds? The question hangs over some of society’s most charged conflicts - whether a fertilised egg is a living person, for example, and when we ought to declare a person legally dead.

A homeland security agent is found dead. Shocking evidence reveals the cause of death is the simultaneous collapse of the man's blood vessels. When a second body sharing the same gruesome symptoms is found, the hunt is on for a frightening new kind of killer. A vicious assault on his leading genetics researcher puts Dr. Ronni Saar, the CEO of Double N, and his friend Gadi, a former military police investigator, on the trail of a sophisticated killer. The deeper Gadi digs, and the more he learns, the more dangerous the terrain becomes.

Charlotte Raven had never heard of Huntington's disease when, in her mid-30s, she discovered that her father was suffering from the illness. Life for her and her young family would never be the same again. Patient 1 is her brutally candid account of coming to terms with this inherited neurodegenerative disease, which can manifest at any time in life for people who carry the faulty gene.

World-renowned virologist Dr. Cricket Rensselaer-Wright abruptly abandoned her research in Africa after watching her colleague die tragically from the Ebola virus. When she returns to the States to reunite with her teenage daughter Emmy, her plans are sidetracked.

Film noir meets Jurassic Park. Petra is a medical engineer for zoologists and fertility clinics. Why is she getting death threats, and what did she do to merit an ankle monitor? As the science advisor to a major contender for the presidency, she needs a PR boost. Hendrix is on his fourth career, having failed as a rock guitarist and a war journalist. His last chance is to write a book that makes the country support this abrasive scientist. He’s always been a sucker for a woman in trouble. Warning: this novel talks about the science and ethics of how babies are made.

For Gabriel Marx, news of the poisoning is eerily familiar. A Marine Corps veteran and trained viticulturist, Gabriel is now working as a vintner at Landmark Estates Winery in California, but was once part of a secret CIA effort to use insect vectors to destroy the Afghan Taliban’s poppy industry. He’s long feared that genetically synthesized toxins delivered by insects could be used as a terror weapon. One day a stream of black SUVs carrying the Secretary of Homeland Security shows up at the vineyard, and Gabriel is recruited to help the government respond to the attack.

Das hochspannende Finale der Evolution-Reihe! Was passiert, wenn der Mensch Gott spielt? Ella, Ben und Gabriel fliehen immer noch vor Nicolai und der Operation Darwin. Dabei werden sie mit der erschütternden Wahrheit konfrontiert: Die einzige Hoffnung auf Freiheit ist die gewagte Manipulation der menschlichen DNA. Dafür spielen die Zwillinge eine entscheidende Rolle, denn ihre Gene sind der Schlüssel zum Erfolg.

Hat die nächste Stufe der Evolution bereits begonnen? Am Universitätsklinikum München entdeckt die Radiologin Ella Schwarz bei einigen ihrer Patienten mysteriöse Gehirnveränderungen. Was zunächst wie eine medizinische Anomalie erscheint, entpuppt sich schnell als düsteres Geheimnis von ungeahntem Ausmaß – denn mehrere Betroffene haben bereits Selbstmord begangen. Oder wurden sie kaltblütig ermordet? Gemeinsam mit dem MRT-Techniker Ben Martens versucht Ella herauszufinden, was sich hinter den Kulissen abspielt.

This is a fictional story based on real scientific and medical facts. It is the story of an infection of Toxoplasmosis gondii and Leucochloridium paradoxum, the first acquired by contact with cat feces and the second acquired from snails. The horrifying thing is that these two have evolved ways to control the minds of their hosts, sending them to their demise. It is also a love story between two neurotic people who cannot cope with a world where their anxiety rules everything.

Gabriel Schist is spending his remaining years at Bright New Day, a nursing home. He once won the Nobel Prize for inventing a vaccine for AIDS. But now, he has Alzheimer’s, and his mind is slowly slipping away. When one of the residents comes down with a horrific virus, Gabriel realizes that he is the only one who can find a cure. Encouraged by Victor, an odd stranger, he convinces the administrator to allow him to study the virus. Soon, Gabriel’s hallucinations interfere with his work. Can he find a cure before his brain deteriorates past the point of no return?

Peter Valois is about to make history. A scientist on a hot project, his days consist of recording brains and sending the files into robots for "conditioning". His plan is to use the results to fix their behavior, and then use the same method with humans. Peter's been on the straight and narrow and everything is going well, until problems with his teenage son force Peter out of his comfort zone. His scheme to save his son backfires when his cutting-edge research attracts the interest of someone who will stop at nothing to get what they want.

The Secret Body is a gripping drama of discovery and a landmark account of the dawning revolution in human health that reveals a hitherto invisible universe within each of us.

Someone wants Skye Hunter’s son, Tyler, and they’re willing to kill to get him. On the run for her life, Skye turns to the only person she believes can help her—a complete stranger with a shared past. David Bishop thinks Skye is crazy. But when he realizes she has the same strange phenomenon inside her body that he does—the ability to move objects with her mind, David is forced to question his life, his childhood and his father’s motives. Can these two lost souls uncover the mystery of their telekinetic powers and save Tyler and themselves in the process?