CRISPR Evolution - Charis Jones

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Résumé :
From an award-winning writer and biomedical researcher comes a science fiction thriller about a man who braves the ruins of our genetic past-and awakens humanity's sleeping destiny. Brilliant geneticist Howard Wake has one life-defining dream: to advance human evolution, starting with his own kids. Under the radar of repressive agencies, he builds a tool designed to probe the human genome for buried treasure. But rousing ancient DNA from its age-old slumber is a risky undertaking. To create his children safely, Howard needs to enlist Jacqueline Witt, who has engineered a secret of her own. Before he can convince his friend and colleague to help him, Howard is forced to disappear into the science underground. Deciding that it's better to beg forgiveness than ask permission, he takes everything he needs with him. Eight years later, Howard's kids are helping him run a garage lab in Massachusetts-but federal agents are only a step behind, the twins' sleeping DNA is beginning to stir, and Jacqueline has tracked down the man who stole what she values most ... and she's willing to do whatever it takes to get it back. PNWA first-place winner, BookLife Prize semifinalist, Eric Hoffer Awards honorable mention, finalist for Eric Hoffer First Horizon Award and Grand Prize, American Book Fest Best Book Awards, Foreword INDIES Awards, Indies Today Awards, National Indie Excellence Awards, and Readers' Favorite Awards.

Biographie:
Charis Jones (aka Charis Himeda, PhD) is an award-winning author and biomedical researcher. She is a research professor and co-founder of Renogenyx, a company dedicated to developing treatments for Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy. She won the FSHD Society's inaugural Young Investigator award, and has been interviewed by The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, and The Boston Business Journal for engineering FSHD therapeutics using CRISPR gene modifying technology. At night, Dr. Himeda doffs her lab gloves to pen speculative fiction about renegade scientists who do things she would never dream of doing. She is a three-time winner in the PNWA literary contest, a semifinalist for the BookLife Prize, and a finalist for the Eric Hoffer First Horizon Award and Grand Prize, the American Book Fest Best Book Awards, the Foreword INDIES Awards, the Indies Today Awards, the National Indie Excellence Awards, the Readers' Favorite Awards, and the Page Turner Awards. Her short fiction has appeared in a number of literary magazines and in The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2021....

Sommaire:
From an award-winning writer and biomedical researcher comes a science fiction thriller about a man who braves the ruins of our genetic past-and awakens humanity's sleeping destiny. Brilliant geneticist Howard Wake has one life-defining dream: to advance human evolution, starting with his own kids. Under the radar of repressive agencies, he builds a tool designed to probe the human genome for buried treasure. But rousing ancient DNA from its age-old slumber is a risky undertaking. To create his children safely, Howard needs to enlist Jacqueline Witt, who has engineered a secret of her own. Before he can convince his friend and colleague to help him, Howard is forced to disappear into the science underground. Deciding that it's better to beg forgiveness than ask permission, he takes everything he needs with him. Eight years later, Howard's kids are helping him run a garage lab in Massachusetts-but federal agents are only a step behind, the twins' sleeping DNA is beginning to stir, and Jacqueline has tracked down the man who stole what she values most ... and she's willing to do whatever it takes to get it back. PNWA first-place winner, BookLife Prize semifinalist, Eric Hoffer Awards honorable mention, finalist for Eric Hoffer First Horizon Award and Grand Prize, American Book Fest Best Book Awards, Foreword INDIES Awards, Indies Today Awards, National Indie Excellence Awards, and Readers' Favorite Awards....