An edition of The Code Breaker
(2021)
Code Breaker
Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
by Walter Isaacson and Kathe Mazur
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A scientific biography of Jennifer Doudna, a founder and co-developer of the CRISPR gene-editing mechanism, and an examination of what happened after CRISPR hit the marketplace.
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nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2021-03-28, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Immunogenetics, Women scientists, biography, Biochemists, Genetic engineering, the scientific process, biotechnology, CRISPR, nyt:paperback-nonfiction=2022-05-22, CRISPR (Genetics), Gene editing, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Science & technology, Women, General, English & college success -> english -> biography & autobiography, Biological sciences & nutrition -> biology -> life sciences generalPeople
Emannanuelle Charpentier, George Church, Jennifer Doudna, He Jiankui, Eric Lander, James Watson, Feng ZhangPlaces
Berkeley, Cambridge MA, Cold Springs HarborTimes
1980-2020
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First Sentence
"Had she grown up in any other part of America, Jennifer Doudna might have felt like a regular kid."
Table of Contents
Contents
Dedication
Introduction. Into the Breach
One. The Origins of Life
1. Hilo
2. The Gene
3. DNA
4. The Education of a Biochemist
5. The Human Genome
6. RNA
7. Twists and Folds
8. Berkeley
Two. CRISPR
9. Clustered Repeats
10. The Free Speech Movement Café
11. Jumping In
12. The Yogurt Makers
13. Genetech
14. The Lab
15. Caribou
16. Emmanuelle Carpentier
17. CRISPR-Cas9
18. Science, 2012
19. Dueling Presentations
Three. Gene Editing
20. A Human Tool
21. The Race
22. Feng Zhang
23. George Church
24. Zhang Tackles CRISPR
25. Doudna Joins the Race
26. Photo Finish
27. Doudna’s Final Spring
28. Forming Companies
29. Mon Amie
30. The Heroes of CRISPR
31. Patents
Four. CRISPR in Action
32. Therapies
33. Biohacking
34. DARPA and Anti-CRISPR
Five. Public Scientist
35. Rules of the Road
36. Doudna Steps In
Six. CRISPR Babies
37. He Jiankui
38. The Hong Kong Summit
39. Acceptance
Seven. The Moral Questions
40. Red Lines
41. Thought Experiments
42. Who Should Decide?
43. Doudna’s Ethical Journey
Eight. Dispatches from the Front
44. Quebec
45. I Learn to Edit
46. Watson Revisited
47. Doudna Pays a Visit
Nine. Cronavirus
48. Call to Arms
49. Testing
50. The Berkeley Lab
51. Mammoth and Sherlock
52. Cronavirus Tests
53. Vaccines
54. CRISPR Cures
55. Cold Spring Harbor Virtual
56. The Nobel Prize
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index
Image Credits
Edition Notes
The Physical Object
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