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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.
When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled The Double Helix on her bed. She put it aside, thinking it was one of those detective tales she loved. When she read it on a rainy Saturday, she discovered she was right, in a way. As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the code of life. Even though her high school counselor told her girls didn’t become scientists, she decided she would.
Driven by a passion to understand how nature works and to turn discoveries into inventions, she would help to make what the book’s author, James Watson, told her was the most important biological advance since his co-discovery of the structure of DNA. She and her collaborators turned a curiosity of nature into an invention that will transform 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.
The development of CRISPR and the race to create vaccines for coronavirus will hasten our transition to the next great innovation revolution. The past half-century has been a digital age, based on the microchip, computer, and internet. Now we are entering a life-science revolution. Children who study digital coding will be joined by those who study genetic code.
Should we use our new evolution-hacking powers to make us less susceptible to viruses? What a wonderful boon that would be! And what about preventing depression? Hmmm…Should we allow parents, if they can afford it, to enhance the height or muscles or IQ of their kids?
After helping to discover CRISPR, Doudna became a leader in wrestling with these moral issues and, with her collaborator Emmanuelle Charpentier, won the Nobel Prize in 2020. Her story is a thrilling detective tale that involves the most profound wonders of nature, from the origins of life to the future of our species.
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##很好的瞭解CRISP的科普
評分##科普的部分已經在其它書裏見過瞭，傳記的部分又不是很有意思。
評分##科普的部分已經在其它書裏見過瞭，傳記的部分又不是很有意思。
評分##我並不很喜歡沃爾特.艾薩剋森，以前看過其喬布斯傳（中文），達芬奇傳（有聲書），總的來說，中規中矩。 然就本書而言，通過傳記故事的方式，學到很多生化知識，體驗象牙塔裏的科研生活，還是很有收獲。 最難忘懷的情節是他對Watson和其兒子的訪問，可惜太短，畢竟是枝節。 人物傳記，盡管是著名人物，要寫齣史詩感，張力十足也不容易。
評分##這本書的寫法太悶瞭，吸引人的反而是那些爭議角色，比如口無遮攔的沃森，或者死捧弟子的Eric Lander，其他角色都立不起來。好在crispr周圍的抓馬就算遇到這種筆觸也絲毫沒有減少八點檔特質。倫理部分非常淺，有大段絲毫沒有建設性的“上帝”“自然”討論，這都什麼年代瞭。在我看來社交網絡還邪惡得要死呢，但人傢已經在這裏瞭，好好拆分和針對性解決吧。有朝一日我一定能等來有個性有文筆還不談上帝的生物學傢重寫這段往事的
評分##很難評價，還是不打分瞭。作者很明顯是高質量傳記作者，他的能力已經在喬布斯傳當中充分展現瞭，在這本書當中更是展露無疑。science部分不難理解，但是這個作者顯然是使用語言的天纔。他是Doudna的傳記作者，自然是非常天生地需要站在她的那一邊。他采用的並非第三方的視角，去“客觀”地記錄CRISPR的曆史。很多事件的發生過程，作者明明有相當大的篇幅可以詳細地描述，反而實際上閃爍其詞，直接跳到事件發生的那個時刻。但是倒有足夠的空間來全文引述一篇新年的email。那一段文字顯然效果很好，諷刺效果max，真是罵人於無形。 who tells the story還挺重要的，Lander在cell上的文章是這個目的，這本書同樣是這個目的。心潮澎湃大可不必，不過的確是一個勵誌故事。
評分##讀瞭Emmanuelle Charpentier, Feng Zhang, &He jiankui, CRISPR, Gene editing historic records部分，作者寫到science內容一筆帶過，想瞭解詳細內容自己去看文獻，曆史的部分講述得比較精彩，不搞學術的人讀瞭能看到研究進步發展時間綫上科學傢們的主導、參與、被遺忘、被放棄及存活的真實展現，good read
評分##roadtrip上聽完瞭有聲書 比預計的更有意思更drama crispr齣來的時候 很多報道podcast采訪 biotech/genes也hype很久瞭 但都知道瞭些皮毛 這本書聽完纔覺得真的懂瞭些 science確實是很competitive的field 特彆是這些lab類的 發文章cycle還算快 就真的是分秒必爭 同事之間的閤作和競爭關係微妙 好奇如果有本從boston角度來講(vs. Berkeley)會是怎麼個態度 Isaacson很是細節之王 多少年前的事情 估計當事人都記不清楚瞭 他能寫細緻至極 feminism貫穿瞭整本書 最後幾章講gene editing moral的有點散
評分##讀瞭Emmanuelle Charpentier, Feng Zhang, &He jiankui, CRISPR, Gene editing historic records部分，作者寫到science內容一筆帶過，想瞭解詳細內容自己去看文獻，曆史的部分講述得比較精彩，不搞學術的人讀瞭能看到研究進步發展時間綫上科學傢們的主導、參與、被遺忘、被放棄及存活的真實展現，good read
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