Code Breaker - Young Readers Edition : Jennifer Doudna and the Race to Understand Our Genetic Code

Isaacson, Walter; Durand, Sarah (ADP)

ISBN 10: 1797147331 / ISBN 13: 9781797147338

Published by Simon & Schuster Audio and Blackstone Publishing, 2022

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Synopsis:

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!<BR><BR>When Jennifer Doudna was a sixth grader in Hilo, Hawaii, she came home from school one afternoon and found a book on her bed. 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.<BR> <BR>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. 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.<BR> <BR>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. 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 war.

About the Author: Walter Isaacson, presidente del Instituto Aspen, ha sido presidente de la CNN y director ejecutivo de la revista Time. Es autor de Steve Jobs: lecciones de liderazgo, Steve Jobs: la biografía, Einstein: His Life and Universe, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life y Kissinger: A Biography, y es coautor, con Evan Thomas, de The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. Vive con su esposa en Washington, D.C.

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Title: Code Breaker - Young Readers Edition : ...
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio and Blackstone Publishing
Publication Date: 2022
Condition: As New