Walter Isaacson, a professor of history at Tulane, has been CEO of the Aspen Institute, chair of CNN, and editor of Time. He is the author of Leonardo da Vinci; The Innovators; 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. Visit him at Isaacson.Tulane.edu.
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.
##挺好看的,实效性很强,跟covid联系很紧密。最喜欢看这种众人拾柴火焰高,每个人的研究都为某个成功的发现奠定基石的故事。所以其实叫code breakers确实更合适,很喜欢Doudna和Charpentier这种微妙的情感,既是合作者又有点小竞争的感觉。中间有段讲gene editing的好处和坏处觉得有点离题,好在后面又拉回来了
评分 评分 评分##很精彩的故事,高尖端的科技,科学家的争名夺利,关于道德的争论,都很有意思,不过感觉作者夹带私货略多
评分 评分##should be the code breakers. 一开始是抱着Bill Gates 推荐过所以想看,不得不说有点失望。但是看到Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 资助了以后就也没那么意外了。
评分##"Great Inventions come from understanding basic science"
评分 评分##should be the code breakers. 一开始是抱着Bill Gates 推荐过所以想看,不得不说有点失望。但是看到Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 资助了以后就也没那么意外了。
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