Walter Isaacson\'s #1 New York Times bestselling history of our third scientific revolution: CRISPR, gene editing, and the quest to Understand the Code of life itself, is now adapted for Young readers! When Jennifer Doudna was a sixth grader in Hilo, Hawaii, she came home from school one afternoon and found a book on her bed.
For now, however, Jennifer and her team are being deployed against our most immediate threat--the coronavirus--and you have just been given a front row seat to that race..
Today gene-editing technologies such as CRISPR are already being used to eliminate simple Genetic defects that cause disorders such as Tay-Sachs and sickle cell anemia.
Doudna became an expert in determining the shapes and structures of these RNA molecules--an expertise that led her to develop a revolutionary new technique that could edit human genes.
This book guided Jennifer Doudna to focus her studies not on DNA, but on what seemed to take a backseat in biochemistry: figuring out the structure of RNA, a closely related molecule that enables the Genetic instructions coded in DNA to express themselves.
It was The Double Helix , James Watson\'s account of how he and Francis Crick had discovered the structure of DNA, the spiral-staircase molecule that carries the Genetic instruction Code for all forms of life.
Walter Isaacson\'s #1 New York Times bestselling history of our third scientific revolution: CRISPR, gene editing, and the quest to Understand the Code of life itself, is now adapted for Young readers! When Jennifer Doudna was a sixth grader in Hilo, Hawaii, she came home from school one afternoon and found a book on her bed
