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The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

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This book tells the story of the discovery of crispr and the players in it. Jennifer doudna and her co-workers discovered the breakthrough that allows crispr to exist and gives it the potential to fix defects in cells. The book culminates in the use o... Read More

This book radiates with the importance of global cooperation and the contributions of immigrants in the u. S. This biography is enlightening and inspiring for women everywhere. Definitely my #1 in nonfiction for this year.

Walter isaacson is an outstanding biographer. Isaacson has a way of explaining biology in lay terms.

This is a really well-researched biography of what it took for jennifer doudna to win the nobel prize for gene editing. The book starts with jenniferdoudna being inspired by reading francis crick's the double helix. It is her drive and curiosity that ... Read More

This book describes thousands of little leaps in knowledge with hundreds of scientists doing brilliant & painstaking work. It does a very nice job at making the science meaningful even to non-scientists, but without just glossing over the science.... Read More

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After college and her doctorate, she became interested in rna and with the help of others was able to use it to cut out defecti... Read More

Fans of walter isaacson won't be disappointed.

… this leads rawls to justify genetic engineering only if it does not increase inequality.

… an essential quality of living things is that they have a method for creating more organisms akin to themselves: they can reproduce.

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Isaacson is a skilled writer and storyteller.

Packaging/appearance

This is a well researched study on the cutthroat race to be first to discover valuable information in the biosciences.

Was there an absolute and clear law against germline gene editing.

“the primary moral goal for today’s bioethics can be summarized … “get out of the way.

Competitiveness

A wonderful treatise on scientific competition and collaboration in the emerging field of biotechnology.

But the author also gives the reader a glimpse into the politics, the egos, the competition, and the race for getting patents.

I would love to get rid of it…it’s an illness that causes … a shitload of suffering.

”” the author writes: “the source of the difficulty turned out to be that the sequencing of the bacteria’s genome had been anno... Read More

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genetic, many and human.

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This product had a total of 12,065 reviews as of our last analysis date on Apr 16 2023.