Medical Genetics

Jamie Tyrone was 49 years old when she learned she had a 91% chance of getting Alzheimer's disease - by accident through genetic testing. She was shocked, but after an initial bout with depression she decided to take action rather than concede defeat. Jamie teamed up with Dr. Marwan Sabbagh, a renowned neurologist, and together they created a resource detailing not just Jamie's experience, but expert medical advice for anyone facing the disease.

A coming-of-age memoir for modern times, Bleeder is the incredibly compelling tale of author Shelby Smoak. A hemophiliac, Smoak discovered he had been infected with HIV during a blood transfusion at the start of his college career. This devastating and destabilizing news led Smoak to see his world from an entirely new perspective, one in which life-threatening illness was perpetually just around the corner. Set in the 1990s along the North Carolina coast, Bleeder traces Smoak’s quest for love in a world that feels increasingly dangerous.

Ex-Navy SEAL Nolan Kilkenny receives a desperate plea for help from doctors frantic to save the life of a young boy with a deadly genetic disorder. The boy, who came to his parents through a blind adoption, has no known blood relatives. Nolan agrees to help, but as he is being prepped for surgery, the boy dies. Further genetic testing then reveals an astonishing truth: Nolan and the boy share the same biological father. Nolan must confront his own father to find out the truth behind the discovery, and uncovers a heinous blackmail plot and desperate victims and villains.

A wealthy businessman, known by most as Joe Kettleman, narrowly survives an attempt on his life. While recovering from surgery to remove a bullet, imaging reveals a lethal tumor. Unwilling to spend his final days under chemical bombardment, he returns to a remote cabin in New Mexico to die in peace. But when death takes its time and Joe outlives his supplies, he's forced to take a perilous journey through the deserts of the Bisti Badlands. Two days into what was supposed to be a five day trek, Joe comes across a town.

An instant classic in the vein of Jurassic Park, this boundary-pushing novel has all the hallmarks of Michael Crichton’s greatest adventures with its combination of pulse-pounding thrills, cutting-edge technology, and extraordinary research.

Already technology enables parents to select some genetic traits for their children, and soon it will be possible to begin to shape ourselves as a species. Countering loud cries of alarm, bioethics expert Ronald Green explains why our fears about genetic engineering are overblown and how we can move forward responsibly to create a better future.

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, ...

Atlanta, GA, 2050. Dr. Avit Arceneaux lives each day with the scars of science without ethics. As a clone, his eyes, inner ear, and kidney were harvested before clone rights were even recognized. Nevertheless, Avit is a hot mess with glaring potential. A research pathologist on the Panacea Team, he investigates glitches in a vaccine that promises functional immortality.

Every 69 seconds, someone is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Of the top 10 killers, it is the only disease for which there is no cure or treatment. For most people, there is nothing that they can do to fight back. But one family is doing all they can. The DeMoe family has the most devastating form of the disease that there is: early onset Alzheimer's, an inherited genetic mutation that causes the disease in 100 percent of cases, and has a 50 percent chance of being passed onto the next generation.

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 ...

Unveil the Enigmas of Uncommon Health Conditions with "The Mysteries of Rare Diseases"! Dive into the fascinating world of rare diseases, where medical marvels are uncovered and unparalleled discoveries are made. This new eBook provides you with an intriguing journey into the captivating realm of lesser-known illnesses that plague the lives of only a select few. "The Mysteries of Rare Diseases" is a comprehensive guide that offers a remarkable glimpse into the complexities and intricacies of various rare disorders across multiple fields of medicine. From genetic abnormalities to enigmatic ...

The 92-year-old Pope is Pregnant. Was it a medical intervention, self-cloning, mutation, Immaculate Conception, or Satan’s work? In the year of Satan, 2066, the structure of the physical world is cracking, and inexplicable paranormal forces are interfering with humanity. Claire, Travis, and Prescott, the members of the Capuchin Trinity Team are tasked with uncovering the truth about this unusual case and resolving the mystery of whether the Pope is carrying the new Messiah or the Antichrist, and who did it. Their job is to go beyond the physical world into the mind and spiritual realm, ...

It wasn’t a routine home invasion. They had taken the baby girl. There was no motive—no ransom. Only a devastated mother, desperate to find her child. As a last resort, she enlists the help of an emotionally damaged detective. Together, they follow a trail that leads down an ever-darkening path, toward a technological nightmare beyond human comprehension. Life hadn’t always treated Jenna well, but she had made the best of it. She had compromised—trading happiness for security. It had all worked out, until that brutal night when her infant child had been abducted. It hadn’t been ...

Unleash the Power of the Human Genome: Uncover the secrets of genetics and its transformative potential in medicine, even if you’re new to the world of DNA. Are you intrigued by the concept of personalized healthcare and the role genetics play in shaping, not only our health, but our responses to different treatments? Do you ever question why treatments work effectively on some individuals and not on others, even when they have the same disease or ailment?

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.

He wakes up from a car accident with a dead man beside him and a duffle bag in the back seat with over one hundred thousand dollars in cash and a loaded gun. He has no memory of his past or how he got there. His only clues are a photo with the address of a shelter and a driver’s license. They lead him to Boston, but once there, he’s left with more questions and a sense of imminent danger. But nothing prepares him for the phenomena he finds within himself. Katherine Spalding knows she’s one of the lucky ones. Born with money and looks, raised and educated among Boston’s elite, she ...

Luke Abramson, a brilliant cellular biologist who is battling lung cancer, has one joy in life: his 10-year-old granddaughter, Angela. When Angela is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor and given less than six months to live, Luke wants to try a new enzyme, Mortality Factor 4 (MORF4), that he believes will kill Angela's tumor. However, the hospital bureaucracy won't let him do it because MORF4 has not yet been approved by the FDA. Knowing Angela will die before he can get the treatment approved, Luke abducts her from the hospital with plans to take her to a private research laboratory in Oregon.

Revive The Dead A New Future New York Science Fiction ThrillerRevive The Dead is a gripping dystopian science fiction thriller set in the bustling metropolis of New York during the year 2033. Raymond Rickman, a former governor of New York turned private lawyer, is pulled from his mundane routine into the world of groundbreaking scientific discovery. When Dr. Benedict Wilson from Beller Research Laboratories approaches him with a proposition to represent their controversial project, Rickman's life takes an unexpected turn. The lab has perfected a technique to revive the newly dead, a process...

In his downtown Toronto condo, Dr. Chen awakens to the sound of streetcars below, but it is not the early morning traffic that keeps him from sleep. News banners run across his phone: Fentanyl Crisis; Toxic Drug Supply; Record Number of Deaths. From behind the headlines, on the same screen, glow the faces of his patients, the faces of the what-ifs: What if he had done more, or less; or something different? Would they still be alive?

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.