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3) Intervention
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Its been more than thirty years since New York City medical examiner Jack Stapletons college graduation and almost as long since hed been in touch with former classmates Shawn Doherty and Kevin Murray. Once a highly regarded ophthalmologist, Jacks career took a dramatic turn after a tragic accident that destroyed his family. But that, too, is very much in the past: Jack has remarriedto longtime colleague and...
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J. P. Beaumont mysteries volume 13
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In Seattle, Detective J. P. Beaumont investigates the murder of an executive of a biotechnology company. The suspects range from a fellow corporate executive, to the aunt of a woman the victim is said to have raped. By the author of Lying in Wait.
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Jenna Fox chronicles volume 1
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In the not-too-distant future, when bio-technological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence.
15) Lucy: a novel
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The result of experimental breeding between a human and ape, fourteen-year-old Lucy is rescued from the Congo jungle where she has lived exclusively among apes and experiences stunning revelations about herself when she is relocated to a Chicago suburb.
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2010
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-- tripled Interwoven with Whitaker’s groundbreaking analysis of the merits of psychiatric medications are the personal stories of children and adults swept up in this epidemic. As -- Anatomy of an Epidemic Praise for Anatomy of an Epidemic “The timing of Robert Whitaker’s Anatomy of an Epidemic “Anatomy of an Epidemic “Lucid, pointed and important, Anatomy of an EpidemicGreg Critser, author of Generation Rx
17) Not in love
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2024.
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A successful biotech engineer, Rue Siebert, when a hostile takeover and its front man, Eli Killgore, threaten to bring her stable, hard-fought world crashing down, is torn between loyalty and undeniable attraction when they embark on a forbidden, no-strings-attached affair that proves all’s fair in love and science.
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Mount Dragon: an enigmatic research complex hidden in the vast desert of New Mexico. Guy Carson and Susana Cabeza de Vaca have come to Mount Dragon to work shoulder to shoulder with some of the greatest scientific minds on the planet. Led by visionary genius Brent Scopes, their secret goal is a medical breakthrough that promises to bring incalculable benefits to the human race. But while Scopes believes he is leading the way to a new world order,...
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"Will you, dear Shareholder, set Athena free? Athena Rao must reckon with the memory of her father, King Rao-literally. Through biotechnological innovation, he has given her his memories. His Dalit childhood on an Indian coconut plantation in the 1950s isas alive to her as her own existence in a prison cell, accused of her father's murder. Egocentric, brilliant, a little damaged, King Rao had a visionary idea: the personal computer known as the Coconut....
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[2017]
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Genetic engineering, and related research, is helping to shape the future of humankind. Over the past two decades scientists have made impressive breakthroughs. They have used the technology to discover cures for diseases, solve crimes, and develop drought-resistant crops that can be used to feed millions of people. However, not everyone is excited about the potential benefits of this technology. Some people believe that it is not right for scientists...