![]() ![]() ![]() In this case, he focuses on Doudna (pronounced DOWD-nuh) to explore the confluence of science, innovation, and ethics.ĭoudna was raised in Hawaii where with blonde hair and blue eyes she says she felt like "a complete freak." But she loved exploring nature in the surrounding meadows and sugarcane fields, and was encouraged by her father and a biology professor to think about a life devoted to science. ![]() Like his earlier books on Steve Jobs, Leonardo da Vinci, and Albert Einstein, Isaacson leans heavily on profiles to tell the broader story. ![]() It is being tested in food and animals and, in a limited way, to correct or treat genetic defects such as sickle-cell anemia. Isaacson makes it clear that RNA has played a starring role both in The Code Breaker, as well as in the life and career of its central character, Jennifer Doudna, who was the co-recipient - with Emmanuelle Charpentier - of the 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the discovery of CRISPR, the gene-editing technology.ĬRISPR is the unwieldy acronym for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, which is essentially a natural way of altering or replacing DNA sequences in a cell. ![]()
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