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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.

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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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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

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

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