![]() Like his earlier books on Steve Jobs, Leonardo da Vinci, and Albert Einstein, Isaacson leans heavily on profiles to tell the broader story. ![]() ![]() It is being tested in food and animals and, in a limited way, to correct or treat genetic defects such as sickle-cell anemia. ![]() Isaacson makes it clear that RNA has played a starring role both in The Code Breaker, as well as in the life and career of its central character, Jennifer Doudna, who was the co-recipient - with Emmanuelle Charpentier - of the 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the discovery of CRISPR, the gene-editing technology.ĬRISPR is the unwieldy acronym for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, which is essentially a natural way of altering or replacing DNA sequences in a cell. ![]()
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