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2) Fair warning
Author
Series
Jack McEvoy volume 3
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Veteran reporter Jack McEvoy has taken down killers before, but when a woman he had a one-night stand with is murdered in a particularly brutal way, McEvoy realizes he might be facing a criminal mind unlike any he's ever encountered. McEvoy investigates - against the warnings of the police and his own editor - and makes a shocking discovery that connects the crime to other mysterious deaths across the country. But his inquiry hits a snag when he...
Author
Language
English
Description
Don Tillman, a professor of genetics, sets up a project designed to find him the perfect wife, starting with a questionnaire that has to be adjusted a little as he goes along. Then he meets Rosie, who is everything he's not looking for in a wife, but she ends up his friend as he helps her try and find her biological father.
6) The god gene
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
367 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rick Hayden's brother, Keith, a prominent zoologist at NYU, walks out of his office one day and disappears. The only clue they have is his brother's book, which mentions "the God Gene." A million or so years ago, a gene designated hsa-mir-3998 appeared as if by magic from the junk DNA of the hominids who eventually evolved into Homo sapiens. It became a key player in brain development--specifically creativity--and laymen started calling it "the God...
Author
Language
English
Description
Anna thought she left the tragedies of the past behind when she moved from Pennsylvania to California, but when her brother vanishes from the genetics lab where he works, Anna has no choice but to head back home. Using skills well-honed in Silicon Valley, she follows the high-tech trail her brother left behind, a trail that leads from the simple world of Amish farming to the cutting edge of DNA research and gene mapping.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Description
"The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a gripping account of how the pioneering scientist Jennifer Doudna, along with her colleagues and rivals, launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and enhance our children"--
11) Genetics
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : Illustrations and phtographs. 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Living things have different traits. These traits are caused by the genes living things get from their parents. Genetics looks at how genes influence traits and how to find out how likely it is to get a trait. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at this subject. Features include a table of contents, infographics, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated...
Author
Series
Ice sequence volume 3
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Something sits in a bunker lab buried fifty feet below the grounds of Lakehurst Naval Air Station. The product of technology confiscated from the Germans after WWII occupies a chamber of steel-reinforced ballistic glass. Despite experimentation for nearly three-quarters of a century, no one knows what it is, but illegal human research reveals what it can do. Humans with special abilities--abilities that can only have come from whatever occupies the...
Series
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 video media player (10 video files) (approximately 1 hr., 18 min.) : digital ; 20 x 13 cm + 1 power charging cord ; 1 switching AC/DC power adaptor wall plug
Language
English
Description
Mosa investigates what's behind a chef's failed dessert.
Mosa investigates whether the frog siblings are lying.
Mosa Mack investigates a digestive mystery.
Mosa Mack and the mystery of the bat.
The mystery of the hungry kid.
Mosa Mack is called in to solve a mystery of the clownfish death.
Is it genetics or environment that are causing these twins to fued? Mosa Mack is on the case.
Mosa Mack is called to help save breakfast!
Mosa Mack is called...
Author
Series
Publisher
World Book, a Scott Fetzer company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A graphic nonfiction volume that introduces how genes impact an organism's inherited traits, including variation, hybrids, mutations, and nature versus nurture"--
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Rosalind Franklin knows if she just takes one more X-ray picture-one more after thousands-she can unlock the building blocks of life. Never again will she have to listen to her colleagues complain about her, especially Maurice Wilkins who'd rather conspire about genetics with James Watson and Francis Crick than work alongside her. Then it finally happens-the double helix structure of DNA reveals itself to her with perfect clarity. But what happens...
18) Seize the night
Author
Series
Moonlight Bay volume 2
Publisher
Brilliance Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018].
Edition
Unabridged
Physical Desc
12 audio discs (approximately 15 hours 23 min) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Poet Christopher Snow, a man who cannot stand daylight, teams up with his genetically engineered dog, Orson, to investigate the abduction of children in Moonlight Bay, California. The children are believed to be prisoners in an army base populated by intelligent animals, produced by scientific experiments. Snow and Orson penetrate the base to search for them. A sequel to Fear Nothing.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 406 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From an acclaimed Harvard professor and one of Time's most influential people, this paradigm-shifting book shows how almost everything we think we know about aging is wrong, offers a front-row seat to the amazing global effort to slow, stop, and reverse aging, and calls readers to consider a future where aging can be treated. For decades, experts have believed that we are at the mercy of our genes, and that natural damage to our genes--the kind that...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
xii, 220 pages, [16] pages of plates : col. illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Could extinct species like mammoths and passenger pigeons be brought back to life? The science says yes. In [this book], Beth Shapiro, evolutionary biologist and pioneer in 'ancient DNA' research, walks readers through the astonishing and controversial process of de-extinction. From deciding which species should be restored, to sequencing their genomes, to anticipating how revived populations might be overseen in the wild, Shapiro vividly explores...
