![]() The development of CRISPR and the race to create vaccines for coronavirus will hasten our transition to the next great innovation revolution. Known as CRISPR, it opened a brave new world of medical miracles and moral questions. ![]() ![]() 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. Even though her high school counselor told her girls didn’t become scientists, she decided she would.ĭriven 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. As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the code of life. When she read it on a rainy Saturday, she discovered she was right, in a way. She put it aside, thinking it was one of those detective tales she loved. 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. ![]() 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. A Best Book of 2021 by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Time, and The Washington Post ![]()
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