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The Code Breaker : Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson, Kathe Mazur is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Code Breaker : Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race about?
A Best Book of 2021 by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Time, and The Washington Post 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.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. She put it aside, thinking it was one of those detective tales she loved. When she read it on a rainy Saturday, she discovered she was right, in a way. As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the code of life. Even though her high school counselor told her girls didn't become scientists, she decided she would. Driven 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. She and her collaborators turned a curiosity of nature into an invent
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- Author
- Walter Isaacson, Kathe Mazur
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781982115869
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Memoir, Biography
- Rating
- 4.7 / 5 (12,339 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- The Code Breaker : Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race (2021)
- Взломавшая код. Дженнифер Даудна, редактирование генома и будущее человечества [litres] (2023)
- 解码者 : 珍妮弗·杜德纳基因编辑的历史与未来 = The code breaker (2022)
- El código de la vida : Jennifer Doudna, la edición genética y el futuro de la especie humana (2021)
- The Code Breaker -- Young Readers Edition: Jennifer Doudna and the Race to Understand Our Genetic Code (Young Readers) (2022)
- The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna and the Race to Understand Our Genetic Code (2021)
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