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The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Rac
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- 9781982115869
- Book Title
- Code Breaker : Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
- Item Length
- 9.1in
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.5in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Science, Medical
- Topic
- Women, Immunology, Life Sciences / General, Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Science & Technology
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Item Weight
- 28 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 560 Pages
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A Best Book of 2021 by Bloomberg BusinessWeek , Time , and The Washington Post The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a "compelling" ( The Washington Post ) account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies. 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. The development of CRISPR and the race to create vaccines for coronavirus will hasten our transition to the next great innovation revolution. The past half-century has been a digital age, based on the microchip, computer, and internet. Now we are entering a life-science revolution. Children who study digital coding will be joined by those who study genetic code. Should we use our new evolution-hacking powers to make us less susceptible to viruses? What a wonderful boon that would be! And what about preventing depression? Hmmm...Should we allow parents, if they can afford it, to enhance the height or muscles or IQ of their kids? After helping to discover CRISPR, Doudna became a leader in wrestling with these moral issues and, with her collaborator Emmanuelle Charpentier, won the Nobel Prize in 2020. Her story is an "enthralling detective story" ( Oprah Daily ) that involves the most profound wonders of nature, from the origins of life to the future of our species.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
1982115866
ISBN-13
9781982115869
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15050400337
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Book Title
Code Breaker : Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Women, Immunology, Life Sciences / General, Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Science & Technology
Publication Year
2022
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Science, Medical
Number of Pages
560 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.1in
Item Height
1.5in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
28 Oz
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"Walter Isaacson is our Renaissance biographer, a writer of unusual range and depth who has plumbed lives of genius to illuminate fundamental truths about human nature. From Leonardo to Steve Jobs , from Benjamin Franklin to Albert Einstein , Isaacson has given us an unparalleled canon of work that chronicles how we have come to live the way we do. Now, in a magnificent, compelling, and wholly original book, he turns his attention to the next frontier: that of gene editing and the role science may play in reshaping the nature of life itself. This is an urgent, sober, accessible, and altogether brilliant achievement." --Jon Meacham "When a great biographer combines his own fascination with science and a superb narrative style, the result is magic. This important and powerful work, written in the tradition of The Double Helix , allows us not only to follow the story of a brilliant and inspired scientist as she engages in a fierce competitive race, but to experience for ourselves the wonders of nature and the joys of discovery." --Doris Kearns Goodwin "He's done it again. The Code Breaker is another Walter Isaacson must-read. This time he has a heroine who will be for the ages; a worldwide cast of remarkable, fiercely competitive scientists; and a string of discoveries that will change our lives far more than the iPhone did. The tale is gripping. The implications mind-blowing." - Atul Gawande "An extraordinary book that delves into one of the most path-breaking biological technologies of our times and the creators who helped birth it. This brilliant book is absolutely necessary reading for our era." -- Siddhartha Mukherjee "Now more than ever we should appreciate the beauty of nature and the importance of scientific research; This book and Jennifer Doudna's career show how thrilling it can be to understand how life works." --Sue Desmond-Hellmann
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576.5
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Trade
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23
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