![]() He starts “The Code Breaker” like a traditional biography, focusing on Doudna’s early life in Hawaii, but quickly deviates to James Watson and Francis Crick’s effort to define the structure of DNA. Then back to Doudna’s early career moves (he inserts chapters on the Human Genome project and the shift of research focus from DNA to RNA) that eventually put her on the forefront of the emerging bioscience field of gene editing with “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats,” known to all as CRISPR. ![]() Much like a sailboat tacking into a fierce wind, Walter Isaacson’s “biography” of gene-editing pioneer Jennifer Doudna bounces all over the genetic spectrum. "The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race" ![]()
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