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New book tells story of the battle to find a vaccine against covid. Written in 2021, it is current and has ties to the vaccine development (sars-cov-2) but he notes the change that occurred during and after the pandemic. It is ironic that covd and the... Read More
Walter isaacson's code breaker is a solid read about doudna and many others that participated in the discovery and advancement of crispr and precision genetics. I was engrossed by the battle to be first, moved by the reconnection between doudna and ch... Read More
It is just as often the case that invention is the parent of science,” he writes. I love that he emphasizes the importance of a cross-discipline approach and how various perspectives and experiences contribute to discovery. It is marvelous to see how ... Read More
The author tackles difficult ethical subjects and controversial relationships with a fair and even-keeled attitude. The contrasting perspectives are those that view justice and morality through the lens of what is best for the society and perhaps even... Read More
“we have now been able to see how an rna molecule can form itself. There this “messenger rna” facilitates the assembly of the proper sequence of amino acids to make … proteins.
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Walter isaacson's book is not what i would have expected from a scientist. The whole proceeding was staged by charles darwin and his friends to give him priority over alfred wallace. The author repeatedly inserts himself throughout the book, adding hi... Read More
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Quality
Excellent mix of describing the scientific discoveries and the compelling human interest with the different personalities involved.
Not that i knew the correlation of doudna's work with the vaccine but this is good reading.
There were times i had to read sentences with the science again to completely understand it.
I also had a problem with the author's unnecessary inclusion of religion in the discussion of the ethics of gene editing, and h... Read More
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Doudna is a role model for society.
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Although it's not quite like a routine biography, the integration of the different sciences and a look into the world of these... Read More
Through interviews with key players the author shows how competition can be an incentive for performance, and how interpersonal... Read More
Isaacson explains the science of gene editing as he introduces characters in this time-relevant drama of competition & collabor... Read More
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- This product had a total of 9,899 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jun 9 2022.
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The details of the science were not of much interest to me
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Fortunately i kept reading and found the competitive business aspects and ethical questions posed by gene editing discoveries to be fascinating
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The code breaker jennifer doudna and crispr by walter isaacson 2021 481 pages is the nonfiction story of the crispr gene editing technique
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The crisprcas 9 attacks viruses by using 1 tracrrna which latches on to the offending virus 2 crisprrna navigates enzyme to correct dna location in readiness to cut cas9—the enzyme which cuts and destroys the dna of the invading virus
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The book should be edited better as it is too long
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The first half of the book follows jennifer doudna and the related developments of her contributions
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The storyline gets a little muddled in the second half with a lots of detail of namesdates conferences and agendas but is pulled together at the end with the work done on covid 19 and the nobel prize
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Code breaker reads like an unfolding novel
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