Code breaker : Jennifer Doudna, gene editing, and the future of the human race
Isaacson, Walter
Code breaker : Jennifer Doudna, gene editing, and the future of the human race - London: Simon & Schuster, 2021. - xix, 536p.hb. 24cm.
When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled The Double Helix on her bed. She put it aside, thinking it was one of those detective tales she loved. When she read it on a rainy Saturday, she discovered she was right, in a way. As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the code of life. Even though her high school counselor told her girls didn’t become scientists, she decided she would.
Driven by a passion to understand how nature works and to turn discoveries into inventions, she would help to make what the book’s author, James Watson, told her was the most important biological advance since his codiscovery of the structure of DNA. She and her collaborators turned a curiosity of nature into an invention that will transform the human race: an easy-to-use tool that can edit DNA. Known as CRISPR, it opened a brave new world of medical miracles and moral questions.
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Code-Breaker/Walter-Isaacson/9781982115852
9781982115852
Doudna, Jennifer A.
CRISPR (Genetics)
Gene editing
Women biochemists
Women scientists --USA
Nobel Prize winners
576.5 / ISA
Code breaker : Jennifer Doudna, gene editing, and the future of the human race - London: Simon & Schuster, 2021. - xix, 536p.hb. 24cm.
When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled The Double Helix on her bed. She put it aside, thinking it was one of those detective tales she loved. When she read it on a rainy Saturday, she discovered she was right, in a way. As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the code of life. Even though her high school counselor told her girls didn’t become scientists, she decided she would.
Driven by a passion to understand how nature works and to turn discoveries into inventions, she would help to make what the book’s author, James Watson, told her was the most important biological advance since his codiscovery of the structure of DNA. She and her collaborators turned a curiosity of nature into an invention that will transform the human race: an easy-to-use tool that can edit DNA. Known as CRISPR, it opened a brave new world of medical miracles and moral questions.
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Code-Breaker/Walter-Isaacson/9781982115852
9781982115852
Doudna, Jennifer A.
CRISPR (Genetics)
Gene editing
Women biochemists
Women scientists --USA
Nobel Prize winners
576.5 / ISA
