Isaacson Walter
Isaacson Walter - The Code Breaker - - Young Readers Edition Jennifer Doudna And The Race To Understand Our Genetic Code - Paperback
Isaacson Walter - The Code Breaker - - Young Readers Edition Jennifer Doudna And The Race To Understand Our Genetic Code - Paperback
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Description: 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! 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 DN a the spiral - staircase molecule that carries the genetic instruction code for all forms of life. This book guided Jennifer Doudna to focus her studies not on DN a but on what seemed to take a backseat in biochemistry: figuring out the structure of RN a a closely related molecule that enables the genetic instructions coded in DN a to express themselves. Doudna became an expert in determining the shapes and structures of these RN a molecules an expertise that led her to develop a revolutionary new technique that could 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 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 race.
Title: The Code Breaker - - Young Readers Edition Jennifer Doudna And The Race To Understand Our Genetic Code
Author(s): Isaacson Walter
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Barcode: 9781665910675
Pages: 336 Pages, F-C Cvr (Spfx: 2 Pms Colors)
Publication Date: 3/28/2023
Category: Evolution
Description: 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! 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 DN a the spiral - staircase molecule that carries the genetic instruction code for all forms of life. This book guided Jennifer Doudna to focus her studies not on DN a but on what seemed to take a backseat in biochemistry: figuring out the structure of RN a a closely related molecule that enables the genetic instructions coded in DN a to express themselves. Doudna became an expert in determining the shapes and structures of these RN a molecules an expertise that led her to develop a revolutionary new technique that could 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 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 race.
Title: The Code Breaker - - Young Readers Edition Jennifer Doudna And The Race To Understand Our Genetic Code
Author(s): Isaacson Walter
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Barcode: 9781665910675
Pages: 336 Pages, F-C Cvr (Spfx: 2 Pms Colors)
Publication Date: 3/28/2023
Category: Evolution
