Ancestor
Subtitle: a novel
By: Scott Sigler
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Crown Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 425
ISBN-13: 9780307406330
Subjects: Fiction; Transgenic organisms; Xenografts; Geneticists; Transplantation of organs, tissues
Description: On a remote island in the Canadian Arctic, PJ Colding leads a group of geneticists who have discovered the holy grail of medicine--a computer-engineered living creature whose organs can be implanted in any person, with no chance of transplant rejection. There's just one problem: these "ancestors" are not docile.