The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a gripping account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies.
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Can you imagine the ability to re-engineer your future generations - _blue eyed, stronger, taller, free from any disorders, immortal?!_
Would the distinction between man-made and natural exist in future?
Is this "hacking" ethical?
Today's discussion centered around these while Anusha presented a captivating book summary of *The Code Breaker*
The book deals with three primary themes-
1. Jennifer Doudna tryst with biology and her shift to chemistr...read more
Well written, intriguing inside view of how laboratories compete and collaborate for funding, developing patents and making money for companies, institutions and scientists. The book is focused on Jennifer Doudna, awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for her work developing CRISPR, a relatively simple gene editing technique, with the promise of development of methods of treating diseases, permanently editing for inherited traits (e.g., so-c...read more
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