The Calcutta Chromosome
Subtitle: A Novel of Fevers, Delirium & Discovery
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: January 23, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780380813940
First sentence: If the system hadn't stalled Antar would never have guessed that the scrap of paper on his screen was the remnant of an ID card.
Description: A computer operator in New York stumbles on information regarding an experiment in 1895 Calcutta to change people. In the experiment, mosquitos were used to transfer chromosomes from one person to another.