The Code Breaker
Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
How Jennifer Doudna and CRISPR gave humanity the power to edit its own genes, and the moral questions that came with it
The story of Jennifer Doudna and the invention of CRISPR, the tool that let scientists edit the code of life. Isaacson uses her career to explain the science clearly and to walk through the race to develop it, the patent fights, and the profound ethical questions gene editing raises about curing disease and redesigning humanity. It is a biography of a scientist and of a technology at once.
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