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Series
Unnaturals volume 1
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"When Castor the street dog is captured, he learns there is a nefarious underground fighting ring in Lion's Head where animals are injected with DNA-changing serums, transformed into dangerous hybrids, and forced to battle one another to survive"--
Author
Series
Maximum Ride volume 4
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
256 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
While on a mission to Antarctica to save the world from global warming, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride and the other members of the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--are pursued by their creator, the Uber-Director, who wants to auction them off to the highest bidder.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
xxi, 340 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Huxley's vision of the future comes to life in his astonishing 1931 novel Brave New World--a world of tomorrow in which capitalist civilization has been reconstituted through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering--and its sequel, written thirty years after his classic novel of the future, in which Huxley describes the shocking scientific devices and techniques available to any group in a position to manipulate society.
Huxley's...
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Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
234 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"A leading geneticist explores what promises to be one of the most transformative advances in health and medicine in history. Almost every week, another exciting headline appears about new advances in the field of genetics. Genetic testing is experiencingthe exponential growth once seen with the Internet, and the plummeting cost of DNA sequencing makes it increasingly accessible for individuals and families. Dr. Steven M. Lipkin suggests that today's...
Author
Publisher
Clear River Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xiv, 511 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Altered Genes, Twisted Truth provides a graphic account of how this elaborate fraud was crafted and how it not only deceived the general public, but Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Barack Obama and a host of other astute and influential individuals as well. The book also exposes how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was induced to become a key accomplice--and how it has broken the law and repeatedly lied in order to usher genetically engineered...
27) Idols
Author
Series
Icons series (Margaret Stohl) volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
415 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In the near future, four teenagers discover that their emotions have been weaponized and that they have been genetically bred to end the alien occupation of Earth.
28) The nest
Publisher
Scream Factory
Pub. Date
2013.
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Description
The residents of a small New England town discover that a corporation has been conducting dangerous genetic experiments with cockroaches.
29) Nevermore
Author
Series
Maximum Ride volume 8
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
344 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Max, Fang, and Dylan prepare for the ultimate confrontation as a mysterious group threatens to reduce the world's population by ninety-nine percent by killing all those who are not enhanced.
30) Tool of war
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In a future beset with rising seas, corporate government, and constant civil war, a bioengineered half-man/half-beast super-soldier who calls himself Tool breaks his conditioning to overcome his genetically enhanced sense of loyalty to the corporation that created him and seeks revenge against his old masters.
31) Human nature
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Our DNA can determine attributes from eye color to medical predispositions. An extraordinary technology called CRISPR allows us to edit human DNA, possibly eliminating genetic diseases or choosing our children's features. But how far should we go?
32) Runaway heart
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Description
What would modern war be like if the front-line foot soldiers were not our sons and daughters, but genetically engineered animals with superhuman strength and speed, and just enough intelligence to understand commands and follow them blindly?
This is exactly the weapon being-developed at a base in the desert by a top-secret government agency.
Attorney Herman Strockmire, a rumpled man with a very big but defective heart, champion of lost legal causes...
33) The gene doctors
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Every year, over a million babies are born worldwide with a hereditary disease; most are serious, and many are fatal. For much of history, doctors could only treat symptoms. Now an elite cadre of pioneers, gene doctors, is starting to target root causes. Through intimate stories of families whose lives are being transformed, the film takes viewers to the frontlines of a medical revolution.
34) The ice lion
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Series
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"One thousand years in the future, the zyme, a thick blanket of luminous green slime, covers the oceans. Glaciers three-miles-high rise over the continents. The old stories say that when the Jemen, godlike beings from the past, realized their efforts to halt global warming had gone terribly wrong, they made a desperate gamble to save life on earth and recreated species that had survived the worst of the earth's Ice Ages. Sixteen-summers-old Lynx and...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
Four years after the destruction of Isla Nublar, dinosaurs now live and hunt alongside humans all over the world. This fragile balance will reshape the future and determine, once and for all, whether human beings are to remain the apex predators on a planet they now share with history's most fearsome creatures in a new era.
36) Lizard boy
Publisher
Cinema Epoch
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After a scientist creates a half-human, half-lizard creature, he realizes that he must find a way to destroy it when the creature goes on a killing spree.
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
216 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Most accounts of the natural evolution of wolves place it over a span of about 15,000 years, but within a decade, Belyaev and Trut?s fox breeding experiments had resulted in puppy-like foxes with floppy ears, piebald spots, and curly tails. Along with these physical changes came genetic and behavioral changes, as well. The foxes were bred using selection criteria for tameness, and with each generation, they became increasingly interested in human...
39) Vitro
Author
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"On a remote island in the Pacific, Corpus scientists have taken test tube embryos and given them life. These beings--the Vitros--have knowledge and abilities most humans can only dream of. But they also have one enormous flaw"--
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
64 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
"From apples that don't turn brown when you slice them to new ways of treating deadly diseases, genetics are at the heart of many of today's most incredible innovations. Readers will learn about the history of genetics from the initial discover of DNA to todays most incredible developments. They will also find out what role genetics are likely to play in upcoming technology and discover what it takes to make it in this fascinating field of science."--Amazon.com....
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