Just Read It: reviews The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson
Posted July 1, 2023
With guests Frances Lu-Pai Ippolito and Botum Chhay, host Caroline Miller reviews the book The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson. Driven by a passion to understand how nature works and turning discoveries into inventions, Jennifer Doudna would help to make the most important biological advance since the discovery of the structure of DNA. She and her collaborators turned a curiosity of nature into an invention that will transform the human race: an easy-to-use tool that can edit DNA. Known as CRISPR, it opened a brave new world of medical miracles and moral questions.
