'The Code Breaker's confident, cinematic style makes Crispr
accessible like never before, taking readers on a journey that is
exciting, as well as ethically treacherous.' - The Financial Times
'A page-turner. It weaves history and contemporary events into a
narrative propelled by the career of its protagonist, Jennifer
Doudna.' - The Economist 'Nobody knows this stuff and these people,
and explains them, quite like Isaacson. If you need to know about
CRISPR - and you do - this is the place to start.' - The Sunday
Times The best-selling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs
returns. In 2012, Nobel Prize winning scientist Jennifer Doudna hit
upon an invention that will transform the future of 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. It has
already been deployed to cure deadly diseases, fight the
coronavirus pandemic of 2020, and make inheritable changes in the
genes of babies. But what does that mean for humanity? Should we be
hacking our own DNA to make us less susceptible to disease? Should
we democratise the technology that would allow parents to enhance
their kids? After discovering this CRISPR, Doudna is now wrestling
these even bigger issues. The Code Breaker is an examination of how
life as we know it is about to change - and a brilliant portrayal
of the woman leading the way. 'The Code Breaker's confident,
cinematic style makes Crispr accessible like never before, taking
readers on a journey that is exciting, as well as ethically
treacherous.' The Financial Times 'The CRISPR history holds obvious
appeal for Walter Isaacson, a biographer of Albert Einstein,
Benjamin Franklin, Steve Jobs and Leonardo da Vinci. In "The Code
Breaker" he reprises several of his previous themes - science,
genius, experiment, code, thinking different - and devotes a full
length book to a female subject for the first time. Jennifer
Doudna, a genuine heroine for our time, may be the code breaker of
the book's title, but she is only part of Isaacson's story... The
Code Breaker" is in some respects a journal of our 2020 plague
year. By the final chapter, Isaacson has enrolled in a vaccine
trial' - New York Times 'Nobody knows this stuff and these people,
and explains them, quite like Isaacson. If you need to know about
CRISPR - and you do - this is the place to start' - The Sunday
Times
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