%0 Book
%T code breaker: Jennifer Doudna, gene editing, and the future of the human race
%A Isaacson, Walter
%D 2022
%7 First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition
%I Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
%C New York
%@ 9781982115869
%G English
%F 1807020304
%O Walter Isaacson
%O Includes bibliographical references and index
%X Introduction. Into the breach -- Part one. The origins of life. Hilo ; The gene ; DNA ; The education of a biochemist ; The human genome ; RNA ; Twists and folds ; Berkeley -- Part two. CRISPR. Clustered repeats ; The Free Speech Movement Café ; Jumping in ; The yogurt makers ; Genentech ; The lab ; Caribou ; Emmanuelle Charpentier ; CRISPR-Cas9 ; Science, 2012 ; Dueling presentations -- Part three. Gene editing. A human tool ; The race ; Feng Zhang ; George Church ; Zhang tackles CRISPR ; Doudna joins the race ; Photo finish ; Doudna's final sprint ; Forming companies ; Mon amie ; The heroes of CRISPR ; Patents -- Part four. CRISPR in action. Therapies ; Biohacking ; DARPA and anti-CRISPR -- Part five. Public scientist. Rules of the road ; Doudna steps in -- Part six. CRISPR babies. He Jiankui ; The Hong Kong summit ; Acceptance -- Part seven. The moral questions. Red lines ; Thought experiments ; Who should decide? ; Doudna's ethical journey -- Part eight. Dispatches from the front. Quebec ; I learn to edit ; Watson revisited ; Doudna pays a visit -- Part nine. Coronavirus. Call to arms ; Testing ; The Berkeley lab ; Mammoth and Sherlock ; Coronavirus tests ; Vaccines ; CRISPR cures ; Cold Spring Harbor virtual ; The Nobel Prize -- Epilogue.
%L QU 550.5.G47
%K Geneticists
%K United States
%K CRISPR (Genetics)
%K Gene editing
%K Bioethics
%K Infants
%K Adulthood
%K Nobel Prizes
%K Genetics
%K history
%K methods
%K Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats
%K CRISPR-Cas Systems
%K ethics
%K Genetic Engineering
%K Genetic Enhancement
%K COVID-19
%K prevention & control
%K Infant
%K Adult
%K Humans
%K Nobel Prize
%K BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology
%K BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
%K SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics
%K Geneticists ; Biography
%K Biographies
%9 Text
%9 Popular Work