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41) The second ship
Author
Series
Rho agenda volume 1
Publisher
47 North
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"In 1948, an alien starship crash-landed in the New Mexico desert and brought with it the key to mankind's future. Code-named the Rho Project, the landing was shrouded in secrecy, and only the highest-ranking US government and military personnel knew it existed. Until now. The US president is preparing to unveil one of the nation's greatest secrets when three students stumble across the wreckage of a second ship outside of Los Alamos. With a single...
42) The fly II
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In this sequel to "The fly", a young man, the son of a human fly, awaits a horrifying transformation when the mutant genes inside him come out of their dormant state when he falls for a beautiful researcher.
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"An inspiring nonfiction picture book about Rosalind Franklin, the groundbreaking chemist who helped discover the structure of DNA, by the award-winning, bestselling author of Who Says Women Can't Be Doctors? and Elizabeth Leads the Way"--
44) Citizen bio
Publisher
Showtime Networks
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A deep dive into the underground world of biohacking and radical medicine. Four notorious biohackers detail their experiences with controversial entrepreneur Aaron Traywick before his mysterious death, and provide a window into the fringe world of bio-punk groups trying to extend human life.
45) The last animal
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A playful, witty, and resonant novel in which a single mother and her two teen daughters engage in a wild scientific experiment and discover themselves in the process, from the award-winning writer of Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty Jane is a serious scientist on the cutting-edge team of a bold project looking to "de-extinct" the wooly mammoth. She's privileged to have been sent to Siberia to hunt for ancient DNA, but there's a catch: Jane's...
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Born into a large, well-educated, and loving family in London, Rosalind grew up with a keen desire to do things that would better the lives of others. By the age of 15, she knew she wanted to be a scientist. Less than 20 years later, she took the world's first photograph of DNA, changing the future of science forever. This inspiring story of the pioneering scientist features a fact and photo section at the back.
47) The fly
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
An experimental scientist working on matter teleportation accidentally combines his DNA with that of a fly when he tests his machine on himself.
48) Death's door
Author
Series
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"One hot August day in 1994, 75 holidaymakers are ferried to an uninhabited island off the North Norfolk coast. Only 74 return alive. A young man has been stabbed and left to bleed to death in the island's surf. The case is never solved. Twenty years later, the new chief constable decides the murder is ripe for a re-evaluation using state-of-the-art forensics. DI Peter Shaw is in charge of the case and summons all 75 original suspects to a mass DNA...
Author
Publisher
W W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A definitive history of the race to unravel DNA's structure, by one of our most prominent medical historians. Biologist James Watson and physicist Francis Crick's 1953 revelation about the double helix structure of DNA is the foundation of virtually every advance in our modern understanding of genetics and molecular biology. But how did Watson and Crick do it--and why were they the ones who succeeded? In truth, the discovery of DNA's structure is...
50) District 9
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Twenty years ago, aliens from another planet made contact with Earth. Now, the refugee camp they are forced to live in has deteriorated into a slum-like ghetto. When field operative Wikus van der Merwe is put in charge of evicting the aliens, he contracts a strange virus that changes his DNA to match that of the refugees. As his body begins to mutate, he becomes a hunted man, and the aliens' only hope for freedom.
Author
Series
FBI thrillers. Truth series volume 4
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
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