genetic engineering

"Seventeen-year-old Jimi Corcoran continues her fight for survival and equality in a near-future world where teenagers have animal DNA spliced into their own"--Provided by publisher.

Cat s hacking skills weren t enough to keep her from losing everything--her identity, her past, and now her freedom. She s trapped and alone, but she s survived this long, and she s not giving up without a fight.

"CRISPR stands for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats. If it sounds complicated, that's because it is. It's almost completely changing the way we think about the future not just of science, but of humanity. CRISPR technology has the potential to eliminate diseases like malaria and cancer, improve the stability of our food supply, and help manage conservation efforts for threatened animals. But with evolving science comes unknown consequences. Are we prepared to take that risk?"--Back cover.

"On their second mission to find another habitable planet, the four mutant animals, LaserShark, AstroWolf, SmartHawk, and StinkBug, splash land on the Water Planet, run by some suspiciously friendly clams, who are very eager to swap planets--and if the AstroNuts can stop arguing among themselves they may find out why before it is too late"--Provided by publisher.

Shay, her manipulative father, Xander, and the other survivors are hiding out at the secret Multiverse compound in Scotland, where Shay still hopes to find some trace of the real Callie, her boyfriend's missing sister, and heal the breach between herself and Kai--who remains her best chance to escape her father's clutches and stop the deadly contagion.

"Believing that she is a carrier of the deadly disease they are calling the 'Aberdeen flu,' Shay has surrendered herself to the authorities and along with other survivors becomes an unwilling test subject in the effort to find a cure; but when the lab is attacked, she and a few of the others with the strongest supernatural abilities escape, and her boyfriend Kai is determined to find her, while ghostly Callie, the true carrier, will atone for her deception"--Provided by publisher.

"Maximum Ride's seventeen-year-old daughter, Hawk, is living under the radar in post-apocalyptic New York City until a destiny that is perilously close to her mother's forces her to take flight"--Provided by publisher.

"Project Apogee had one mission: to create biologically engineered perfect teenagers. The teenagers were supposed to be expressions of a perfect genetic mapping of traits, an example of the New Human. But when the teens go before the project committee, they are found to be utterly normal and unremarkable--a disappointment. Then there's Alex, the lost teen who failed years ago, who might just be the most remarkable of them all"--Provided by publisher.

"Explores how and why gene editing was developed, how the technology works today, and how the technology will be advanced in the future"--Provided by publisher.

"In her fight for human rights for chimeras--people who who alter themselves with animal DNA--seventeen-year-old Jimi Corcoran and her chimera boyfriend Rex are drawn into a whirlwind of secret identities, shocking experiments, and an apocalyptic plot that threatens the future of humanity"--Provided by publisher.