Ergebnis für "DNA" in Literatur & Belletristik

Ein neues Ermittler-Duo aus Island. Er schlägt erbarmungslos zu. Wie aus dem Nichts. Zuerst trifft es eine junge Mutter nachts in ihrer Wohnung in Reykjavik. Wenig später verliert eine zweite Frau unter brutalen Umständen ihr Leben. Der erste große Fall für Kommissar Huldar. Der hat noch ein Problem: Er muss mit der Psychologin Freya zusammenarbeiten, mit der er kürzlich nach einer Kneipentour die Nacht verbracht hat - allerdings als angeblicher Zimmermann von den Westfjorden.

Alex, der durch einen Unfall seine Beine und einen Arm einbüßte, meldet sich aus Verzweiflung bei dem geheimen Forschungsschiff "Cheiron". An Bord der "Cheiron" erfahren sie, dass die Forschungen einen gravierenden Haken haben: Um Fortschritte zu erzielen, müssen Lilou und Alex sterben. Wieder und wieder. Noch dazu lösen die Experimente nicht immer steuerbare Kräfte aus. Dann häufen sich unheimliche Vor- und Todesfälle an Bord… Bevor Lilou und Alex der Sache nachgehen können, wird die "Cheiron" durch Unbekannte aufgebracht.

Im Jahr 2003 wurde das erste menschliche Genom zerlegt und analysiert: Ein historischer Moment. Aber nur ein Wissenschaftler kennt die Wahrheit, die in unserer DNA verschlüsselt ist. Dieses Geheimnis kann alles ändern: Unsere Vergangenheit - und unsere Zukunft! Wer es besitzt, hat Macht über die gesamte Menschheit. Dr. Peyton Shaw, die das Vermächtnis des legendären Wissenschaftlers Paul Kraus erforscht, kommt einer globalen Verschwörung auf die Spur.

Liegt das größte Geheimnis der Welt im Menschen selbst verschlüsselt? T-Rex, Nolo und Colin folgen der Fährte einer weiteren Chiffre und suchen die Wahrheit hinter den offiziellen Verlautbarungen zur Genetik. Welche Möglichkeiten stecken hinter der Entschlüsselung der menschlichen DNA? Wie weit ist der Mensch bereit zu gehen, und wie weit sind die Genetikforscher bereits mit dem Menschen gegangen? T-Rex und seine Freunde müssen schon bald feststellen, dass die Wahrheit erschreckend sein kann.

"HARROWING THRILLS . . . FAST-PACED AND ENGAGING." --People It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end--the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, the island indefinitely closed to...

New York Times bestselling author Daniel Suarez delivers an exhilarating sci-fi thriller exploring a potential future where CRISPR genetic editing allows the human species to control evolution itself. On a crowded train platform, Interpol agent Kenneth Durand feels the sting of a needle—and...

From the acclaimed author of The Troop—a book that is “utterly terrifying” (Clive Barker). “Fans of unflinching bleakness and all-out horror will love this novel….Each new shock is freshly disturbing” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). A strange plague called the ‘Gets is...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Writing duo and reigning romance queens Christina Lauren are back with...their most ambitious book to date.” —PopSugar Chosen as a best pick by Bustle, Marie Claire, Entertainment Weekly, E! Online, PopSugar, BuzzFeed, Goodreads, Country Living, The...

"HARROWING THRILLS . . . FAST-PACED AND ENGAGING." --People It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end--the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, the island indefinitely closed to...

The Pickett family rises from extreme generational poverty to play a crucial part in the growth of the human race. Over the span of generations, and the course of centuries, the family saves humanity from an alien invasion, works to reverse global warming, and prevents the extinction of the human race at the edge of the known galaxy. But, yes, before all that they were in the ... um ... klan for several generations. They dropped the racism and joined the human race. Come join us for one of the longest, weirdest multi-generational redemption arcs known to mankind.

The energetic and bitingly satirical novel from author Edward Ashton, author of Mickey7! The End of Ordinary is a riveting near-future thriller that asks an important question: if we can’t get along when our differences are barely skin deep, what happens when they run all the way down to the...

From the author of the international bestseller Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this book follows four new customers who hope to travel back in time in a little Japanese café. In a back alley in Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE “An intimate story from the family archive that is also the infamous history of our continent.”—Valeria Luiselli, author of Lost Children Archive Award-winning Peruvian journalist Gabriela Wiener delivers her stunning English breakthrough...

Ich weiß, dass ich ein Verlier bin...Einer jener Menschen, die nach viel streben, nichts erreichen und nie wissen, worum es wirklich geht...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs’s twentieth “brilliant” (Louise Penny) thriller featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, whose examinations of unidentified bodies ignite a terrifying series of events. “This is A-game Reichs, with crisp prose, sharp dialogue...

Remember frolicking outside during the long, jubilant days of summer? This vibrant collection invites listeners to breathe deeply and return to that “carefree” season. From riding bikes with friends through the neighborhood, to hopping the ferry to Boblo Island, catching catfish along the river, dancing on warm nights to Afrobeats and jazz music, and cooling off in the Swimmobile, those sun-drenched memories were often clouded by racism for the Detroiters in this evocative anthology.

In the near future, a team of Russian researchers creates the first humans with artificial DNA, designed for an extreme mission: to colonize Mars and exploit its resources. To keep the secret, real astronauts are sent with them... without knowing that they are traveling with human copies. But once on Mars, the clones begin to malfunction: physical disorders, violent seizures, uncontrollable urges. The mission turns into a nightmare, and the survival of humanity may well depend on what they discover beneath the red surface. Artificial DNA

From “one of the hottest horror authors on the planet” (Paste) and writer of the #HorrorBookTok sensation The Troop—a heart-pounding novel of terror about a young woman searching for her missing friend and uncovering a shocking truth. On a sunny morning in June, Margaret Carpenter wakes up...

In near-future Baltimore, scientific breakthroughs in genetic engineering promise to cure the incurable. But these new technologies are not without a dark side. Powerful criminal organizations thrive on peddling illicit genetic wares, waging an underground war unlike any the city has ever seen.

DNA Never Lies is the first in a series of novels featuring Karen Copperfield, investigative genealogist. Karen helps people make sense of sometimes dark family secrets revealed by DNA tests as they ask: 'what happens when nothing you believed is true?'