Títulos en Ingeniería genética

Dylan Alexander Prototype X-1689 is a sentinel, a cloned partially computerized human made to replace security systems in upper class homes. Sentinels are programmed to operate without emotions that hinder protective instincts, however in Dylan’s case, the programming goes wrong - he falls in love.  

Genetically enhanced workers are the future of companies competing in the global marketplace. People need to be more intelligent, more capable...more. Genetic perfection has a price: a brutal Darwinian contest of strength and cunning to determine which bloodlines will continue and dominate.

Ashley Butler, a prize-winning journalist at the San Diego Times receives an email from a man who claims to have discovered immortality by turning off the aging gene in a 15-year-old boy with an aging disorder. The email has pictures showing a reversal of the aging process and the names of a scientist and a company to investigate. Thinking it a hoax, she forwards the email to friends. Though skeptical, she calls to investigate and gets a no-longer-in-service message.

When a terrorist organization take control of an island research facility, Rob Cashen and his band of mercenaries are recruited to eliminate the terrorists and rescue the hostages. Upon arrival, they realize something has gone horribly wrong. Terrorist outposts are in ruins, guns and equipment are left abandoned, but no bodies can be found. In the ensuing investigation, Rob discovers the horrific consequences of genetic tampering.

Trident Nottingham III had an idea that would change the world forever: a shipbrain designed to make interstellar flight less restrictive and reduce the amount of time one spent attempting to meet regulations. What he didn't expect was that the shipbrain would develop a mind of its own.

Told in the form of a series of letters ‘Frankenstein’ follows a young and charismatic Victor Frankenstein as he attempts to make his mark on the world of science. Taking a number of body parts from various corpses, he brings a monstrous creation to life which instead of being his crowning glory, terrifies him. The nameless monster escapes from his lab, taking many innocent lives before Frankenstein can track it down again.

En 1859, Léon Renault revient à Fontainebleau, après avoir passé trois ans en Russie en qualité d'ingénieur des mines. Parmi les cadeaux qu'il a ramenés à ses proches et à sa fiancée Clémentine, il y a le colonel Fougas, qu'il a acheté pour 25 napoléons, et dont le corps a été desséché en 1813. Fougas n'avait que 24 ans et était militaire dans l'armée napoléonienne. Une oreille lui est accidentellement cassée. Après un bain spécial, le colonel ressuscite. À l'apparition de Clémentine, il croit reconnaître sa bien-aimée qui lui a donné un fils... Il perturbe ainsi la vie de tout le monde.

Dans "Félifax", publié à l'origine en 1929, le fils de Paul Féval s'est donné pour tâche presque impossible de rassembler deux archétypes : Sir Eric Palmer, le grand détective britannique, successeur de Sherlock Holmes, contre Félifax, né dans la jungle, tiger-man, un clone littéraire de Tarzan, dans l'espoir de générer une synergie singulière. Contrairement à la grande majorité des imitations Tarzan, Félifax n'est pas un enfant sauvage mais quelque chose de tout à fait nouveau et révolutionnaire.

Nous retrouvons la suite des aventures de l'"Homme Tigre" à Londres dans un cirque, parti à la recherche du docteur qui a fait subir des expériences sur sa mère.

L'Homme invisible est un roman de science-fiction de H. G. Wells. L'histoire : après quinze ans de recherches ruineuses, le chercheur Griffin invente une formule scientifique permettant de devenir invisible. Ayant réussi une expérience sur le chat de sa voisine, le savant décide d'expérimenter la formule sur lui-même, notamment pour fuir ses créanciers, avant de déclencher un incendie visant à effacer ses traces.

Minos is such a lovely planet, as the crew of the space cruiser Explorer discover. Not a thing seems wrong with it. Excepting the food perhaps. And a disease that really isn't. They are surprised to learn they are not the first humans to arrive on Minos. In fact, there is a small colony on Minos whose inhabitants have one odd detail in common, as the Explorer's crew is soon to discover.

Die angesehene Wissenschaftlerin Dr. Elisabeth Ambrose entwickelte ein Gateway, das es möglich macht, andere Zeitlinien zu erforschen und mit diesen in Kontakt zu treten. Doch nicht alles läuft wie geplant: nach Inbetriebnahme erscheinen unkontrolliert Personen aus anderen Zeitlinien in der Hiesigen - die sogenannten Anomalien. Das gut versteckte Anomalia ist eine Zufluchtsstätte dieser Gestrandeten und beheimatet nach und nach Menschen unterschiedlichster Herkunft. Doch jede vielschichtige Gesellschaft birgt etliche Konflikte.

Nach dem Absturz des Gleiters kommt es zum unausweichlichen Aufeinandertreffen zwischen dem Rettungstrupp und dem Einsatzkommando der Regierung. Durch seine Fähigkeiten als ehemaliger Soldat gelingt es Matthew Fisher Gibbs zu überwältigen und die Jugendlichen sicher nach Anomalia zu bringen. Diese Begegnung bleibt jedoch nicht ohne Folgen: das jahrelang gut gehütete Geheimnis um den genauen Standort von Anomalia läuft Gefahr entdeckt zu werden. Aber auch der vermeintlich sichere Zufluchtsort entwickelt sich zu einem brodelnden Kessel unterschiedlichster Nationen und Kulturen, in dem Auseinandersetzungen vorprogrammiert sind.

Staring down at the culmination of his life's work, Professor Norman Rumble is horrified and unable to comprehend what has happened... How could he have known? The hilarious sequel to the Siam Storm adventure. This time, Stu and Spock team up with Pon to recover the once-again stolen holy relic, though this time it's disappeared for an even stranger and more astonishing reason.

The butchered remains of Jasmine Rivers are discovered in the cellar of an abandoned farmhouse on the desolate eastern plains of Colorado, the fourth mutilated body found in the last two months. The FBI is still searching for the missing parts of the previous three. Hundreds of miles away in Arizona, eleven corpses are exhumed from the Sonoran Desert. They’ve been mummified and bundled in traditional Inca style. But the Inca lived in South America, and these bodies aren’t centuries old.

Humans are caught up in an alien war in this epic from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Star Trek Into Darkness. For millennia, the Weave, an alliance of species, have fought to resist the telepathic Amplitur, who strive to unite all self-aware...

After losing his job and family, Flint Reed finds himself in the middle of a terrorist attack. With nothing but his wits and experience as a former Union police officer, he must do everything he can to stay alive. As he soon discovers, however, there are also hostages, and no one is coming to save them. All hope falls to Flint. But as he fights to navigate the building, the real answers begin to unravel. What are the terrorists really after, and why are they so intent on getting into the vault?

Struggling for supplies and battling the elements, the true nature of people shows through as they face adversity like they have never known before. Nevin, as charmed and untouchable as his toxic existence has been, finds a niche in his new home; still not enough for him, though, as he plans to become more comfortable at the expense of others. But is tangling with Johnson a confrontation he can come back from?

The survivors are trapped. Cut off from the rest of the world and quarantined as the virus spreads to every corner of the country, while the combined forces of the naval fleet set sail for deeper waters and leave the UK to its fate. Facing the aftermath of the battle for the island, the groups are separated as the bonds of friendship and camaraderie are violently severed, and they must survive on their own. Every effort to survive is fraught with peril, and those left behind must battle to find some form of safety, no matter how brief that respite might be.

The Island of Doctor Moreau is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1896. It recounts the adventures of shipwrecked Edward Prendick, who is rescued only to be set adrift near the volcanic, tropical island of Doctor Moreau, an obsessive vivisectionist who 'artistically' carves human beings from animals.