*The ancestors are out thereyou have to believe me.* From acclaimed author Scott Sigler*New York Times* bestselling creator of *Infected* and *Contagious*comes a tale of genetic experimentations worst nightmare come true. Every five minutes, a transplant candidate dies while waiting for a he
Ancestor
โ Scribed by Scott Sigler
- Publisher
- Crown Publishing Group;Crown Publishers
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 288 KB
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
"The ancestors are out there...you have to believe me."
From acclaimed author Scott Sigler--New York Times bestselling creator of Infected and Contagious --comes a tale of genetic experimentation's worst nightmare come true.
Every five minutes, a transplant candidate dies while waiting for a heart, a liver, a kidney. Imagine a technology that could provide those life-saving transplant organs for a nominal fee ... and imagine what a company would do to get a monopoly on that technology.
On a remote island in the Canadian Arctic, PJ Colding leads a group of geneticists who have discovered this holy grail of medicine. By reverse-engineering the genomes of thousands of mammals, Colding's team has dialed back the evolutionary clock to re-create humankind's common ancestor. The method? Illegal. The result? A computer-engineered living creature, an animal whose organs can be implanted in any person, and with no chance of transplant...
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