The code breaker : Jennifer Doudna, gene editing, and the future of the human race
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Published
New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2022.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xxi, 536 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9781982115869, 1982115866

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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"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 building blocks 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 their curiosity 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 COVID-19 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 the code of life. Should we use our new evolution-hacking powers to make us less susceptible to viruses? What a wonderful book that would be! And what about preventing depression? Hmm...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 a thrilling detective tale that involves the most profound wonders of nature, from the origins of life to the future of our species"--From dust jacket.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Isaacson, W. (2022). The code breaker: Jennifer Doudna, gene editing, and the future of the human race (First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition.). Simon & Schuster Paperbacks.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Isaacson, Walter. 2022. The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race. Simon & Schuster Paperbacks.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Isaacson, Walter. The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2022.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Isaacson, Walter. The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition., Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2022.

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