Carolyn’s parents did not, after all, make genomics history by synthesizing her genome in a lab. She has known she is the “Human Hoax” ever since a high school genetics exercise revealed she has trisomy X—a chromosomal abnormality—yet no synthetically constructed genome would have such clear traces of natural conception. Many years later, as molecular biologist, she hopes her colleagues never learn of her embarrassing origins. But when someone ransacks her office and lab, she finds professional embarrassment is the least of her worries. Someone believes she has the results of her parents’ last, secret experiments, and is willing to kill to get them. But all she has from her parents are their genes—can she find what else they may have left her before somebody else does?In a not-so-distant society, where corporations wield as much power as nations and the line between corporate employee and state authority is blurred, the chase is on. Carolyn may have just too little time at hand to unravel the mystery of her parents’ final days and to realize the deep consequences for the future of mankind.

Genetic and codon code
Genetic engineering
Genetic thriller
Genomic thriller
Science and Fiction
Synthetic biology and synthetic genomes
Telomeres and molecular ageing
Trisomy X

• Prologue
• The Signal
• Carolyn’s World
• Lines of Truth
• Hidden Patterns
• Breaking Protocol
• Echoes from the Past
• The Algorithm
• Firewall
• Encrypted Memories
• Zero Day
• The Key
• A Code for Carolyn
• Decryption
• Epilogue

• School of Biology, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, UK

  V. Anne Smith

Book Title
A Code for Carolyn

Book Subtitle
A Genomic Thriller

Authors
V. Anne Smith

Series Title
Science and Fiction

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04553-1

eBook Packages
Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

Softcover ISBN
978-3-030-04551-7
Published: 12 February 2019

eBook ISBN
978-3-030-04553-1
Published: 01 February 2019

Series ISSN
2197-1188

Series E-ISSN
2197-1196

Edition Number
1

Number of Pages
V, 235

Number of Illustrations
6 b/w illustrations

Topics
Popular Life Sciences, Nucleic Acid Chemistry, Genetic Engineering, Popular Science in Chemistry and Materials