The Code Breaker Jennifer Doudna and the Race to Understand Our Genetic Code
When Jennifer Doudna was a sixth grader in Hilo, Hawaii, she came home from school one afternoon and found a book that would spark her curiosity in science. 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. When the time came, Doudna focused her studies 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's expertise led her and her collaborators to develop a revolutionary new technique that could actually edit human genes. Today gene-editing technologies such as CRISPR are already being used to eliminate simple genetic defects that cause disorders such as Tay-Sachs disease and sickle-cell anemia. For now, however, Doudna and her team are lining up against our most immediate threat-the coronavirus-and you have just been given a front-row seat to that race. Book jacket.
Juvenile NonfictionScience & NatureBiology
RELEASED2022
PUBLISHERSimon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
LENGTH320
LANGUAGEEN
Walter Isaacson, the CEO of the Aspen Institute, has been chairman of CNN and the managing editor of Time magazine. He is the author of Steve Jobs; Einstein: His Life and Universe; Benjamin Franklin: An American Life; and Kissinger: A Biography, and the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. He lives in Washington, DC. [(Source)][1] [1]: http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Walter-Isaacson/697650
The Code Breaker Jennifer Doudna and the Race to Understand Our Genetic Code
by Walter Isaacson, Sarah Durand
When Jennifer Doudna was a sixth grader in Hilo, Hawaii, she came home from school one afternoon and found a book that would spark her curiosity in science. 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. When the time came, Doudna focused her studies 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's expertise led her and her collaborators to develop a revolutionary new technique that could actually edit human genes. Today gene-editing technologies such as CRISPR are already being used to eliminate simple genetic defects that cause disorders such as Tay-Sachs disease and sickle-cell anemia. For now, however, Doudna and her team are lining up against our most immediate threat-the coronavirus-and you have just been given a front-row seat to that race. Book jacket.
Juvenile NonfictionScience & NatureBiology
RELEASED2022
PUBLISHERSimon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
LENGTH320
LANGUAGEEN
Walter Isaacson, the CEO of the Aspen Institute, has been chairman of CNN and the managing editor of Time magazine. He is the author of Steve Jobs; Einstein: His Life and Universe; Benjamin Franklin: An American Life; and Kissinger: A Biography, and the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. He lives in Washington, DC. [(Source)][1] [1]: http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Walter-Isaacson/697650
