03061cam a2200373 i 4500 1187220557 OCoLC 20210330104541.0 200929s2021 nyua b 001 0deng 2020043552 9781982115852 DLC eng rda DLC QH440 .I83 2021 576.5 23 Isaacson, Walter, author. 6489 The code breaker : Jennifer Doudna, gene editing, and the future of the human race / Walter Isaacson. Jennifer Doudna, gene editing, and the future of the human race. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2021. ©2021. xix, 536 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm. text txt rdacontent. still image rdacontent. unmediated n rdamedia. volume nc rdacarrier. Includes bibliographical references (pages 487-516) and index. Introduction. Into the breach -- Part one. The origins of life. Hilo ; The gene ; DNA ; The education of a biochemist ; The human genome ; RNA ; Twists and folds ; Berkeley -- Part two. CRISPR. Clustered repeats ; The Free Speech Movement Café ; Jumping in ; The yogurt makers ; Genentech ; The lab ; Caribou ; Emmanuelle Charpentier ; CRISPR-Cas9 ; Science, 2012 ; Dueling presentations -- Part three. Gene editing. A human tool ; The race ; Feng Zhang ; George Church ; Zhang tackles CRISPR ; Doudna joins the race ; Photo finish ; Doudna's final sprint ; Forming companies ; Mon amie ; The heroes of CRISPR ; Patents -- Part four. CRISPR in action. Therapies ; Biohacking ; DARPA and anti-CRISPR -- Part five. Public scientist. Rules of the road ; Doudna steps in -- Part six. CRISPR babies. He Jiankui ; The Hong Kong summit ; Acceptance -- Part seven. Moral questions. Red lines ; Thought experiments ; Who should decide? ; Doudna's ethical journey -- Part eight. Dispatches from the front. Quebec ; I learn to edit ; Watson revisited ; Doudna pays a visit -- Part nine. Coronavirus. Call to arms ; Testing ; The Berkeley lab ; Mammoth and Sherlock ; Coronavirus tests ; Vaccines ; CRISPR cures ; Cold Spring Harbor virtual ; The Nobel Prize. Driven by a passion to understand how nature works and to turn discoveries into inventions, Doudna 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. Isaacson explores the development of CRISPR and the race to create vaccines for coronavirus will hasten our transition to the next great innovation revolution. -- Adapted from jacket. Doudna, Jennifer A. 6490 CRISPR (Genetics) 6491 Gene editing. 6492 Cornerstones of Science website http://www.cornerstonesofscience.org/ ddc BOOK 27416 27416 ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ NF 2021-03-30 35.00 3 576.5 ISAA 62187 2025-06-11 2025-05-31 2021-03-30 BOOK