In 1980 un alt pas urias : Cech si Altman descopera ca anumite forme de ARN pot fi enzime, moleculele lor se pot diviza, declansand o reactie chimica. Mai mult, ele pot fi mai importante pentru originea vietii decat ADN, ele pot elimina prin taiere secvente nedorite.

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After marriage and the birth of their son, Doudna and Cate were both offered a professorship at UC Berkley. Part of Doudna's genius was her ability as an effective leader. The emphasis she put on assembling a team in her lab that had chemistry (pardon the pun), so that ideas would collaborate and flow instead of egos or combative competition causing objectives to be stifled, was cherished by her underlings. In all, it takes commitment to read this book and I have a feeling that its reception will not be the one that this author has received previously in his wonderful works. Sad to say, this is not something I would heartily recommend and one I would caution the reader to be ready to be at times overwhelmed and needing a pause in its reading.The other concern that if allowed, everyone in the world may opt for children with uniform characteristics, hence reducing overall diversity. There is something fundamentally paternalistic and wrong if scientists feel that people should not have a choice. More importantly, the people are so diverse that it is difficult to expect everyone to go for the same option on almost any parameter. Plus, if everyone in the world wants to go for one solution - let's say to opt for removing all diseases - why should a handful of scientists resist that in the name of uniformization? 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. On the heels of Doudna and her future husband - then workmate in Chech’s lab - Jamie Cate, unveiling their grand discovery of the three-dimensional structure of RNA, she suffered the news that she would lose her father to melanoma. Sadly, the cancer had metastasized to his brain, and he was given only a short time to live. He was her biggest champion, and in the last months of his life she regaled him with the details of their massive breakthrough. The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race is a non-fiction book authored by American historian and journalist Walter Isaacson. Published in March 2021 by Simon & Schuster, it is a biography of Jennifer Doudna, the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work on the CRISPR system of gene editing. [1] In 2019 a Chinese national scientist named He Jiankui conducted a germline editing process on (x3) embryos, essentially birthing the world's first gene-edited babies.

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Pineau, Roger (1996). The Codebreakers: The Story of Secret Writing by David Kahn, internal CIA book review by Roger Pineau, ca. 1967, released to public 1996. Retrieved from [1]. This is an engaging, interesting, informative, and thought-provoking biography cum history. While the focus is on Jennifer Doudna, Isaacson gives almost equal time to the many other researchers who contributed to the scientific discoveries and applications. For the above reasons I would recommend this book only with reservations. I’m glad I read it, but I think it would be an even more powerful book had it been condensed and edited.

For example, this reviewer strongly feels that the industry professionals must narrow down the list to the issues within their domain, where the debates and their resolutions could lead to material or needed change in the methods and bin the rest. Stars for The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and The Future of the Human Race (audiobook) by Walter Isaacson read by Kathe Mazur. I really enjoyed the story of how CRISPR was discovered. Isaacson puts a lot of onus on the trait of curiosity across all his biologies (Steve Jobs, Leonardo Da Vinci, etc). And Jennifer Doudna was only a pioneer and discoverer of CRISPR's uses because she was being curious and exploring the bounds of science. We decant our babies as socialized human beings, as Alphas or Epsilons, as future sewage workers or future..." He was going to say "future World controllers," but correcting himself, said "future Directors of Hatcheries."' - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (as quoted in The Code Breaker) Messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) translates genetic information embedded in DNA into instructions for protein synthesis.

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CRISPR and gene editing are barely getting started. Most of us will spend countless hours in coming years and decades following this science's developments. One should expect more books on genetic science than any other subjects singing peans of its impact on our health and life. It is not an exaggeration to suppose that genetic sciences' influence could be more than any other scientific revolutions so far. If the field offers equally exciting and inspirational stories of the professionals involved, like Doudna, Charpentier, and others in the book, it is even better.November 17 – December 30, 2023 Admission at 4 pm, 4:30 pm, 5 pm, 5:30 pm and 6 pm. Gates close at 6:30 pm. House & grounds close at 8 pm

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I began this journey thinking that biotechnology was the next great scientific revolution, a subject that was filled with awe-inspiring natural wonders, research rivalries, thrilling discoveries, lifesaving triumphs, and creative pioneers such as Jennifer Doudna, Emmanuelle Charpentier, and Feng Zhang. The Year of the Plague made me realize I was understating the case.” --Walter Isaacson, in the epilogue of The Code Breaker Walter Isaacson is a true storyteller, and this book yet another compelling, fast to read, educational, biography. He goes deep into the fascinating and burgeoning world of CRISPR to explain it and its origins. And it's clear that CRISPR is changing the world, and will be something we are all familiar with in the decades to come. The same goes for the briefly explained concerns on inequality and "uniformization". Most scientific innovations do not benefit the entire swathe of humanity equally and simultaneously. The solutions are partly with the authorities to mitigate those inequality generating factors and partly speed up the innovation by making its fruits less expensive and more widely available. Stymieing innovation has rarely been debated as a potential solution to any inequality. It's hard to imagine how a gene supermarket, with price points only affordable to the already rich and privileged, would result in anything other than a super-elite class. Those unable to keep up would merely be serfs whose only existence would be to serve the master class. Bio-techno-feudalism, as it were. That is not the world I want to live in.

Until 2020, only five women, beginning with Marie Curie in 1911, had won a Nobel for chemistry. But 2020 was the year it went to two women, Jennifer Doudna and French colleague Emmanuelle Charpentier, for the development of CRISPR, a gene editing technology. Cas9 enzymes together with CRISPR sequences form the basis of a technology known as CRISPR-Cas9 used to edit genes within living organisms. This all started in 2012 when Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna dropped a seminal (no pun intended) paper on CRISPR Cas9. I'm giving this five stars because a) Isaacson maintained my interest throughout on a pretty complex and confusing topic and b) the research and c) so timely. My level of interest and enjoyment was more around a 3 1/2 star, but that had nothing to do with the quality of the book. Absolutely fascinating biography of a great scientist in a field that has made tremendous progress in recent years - much thanks to Jennifer Doudna. I am ashamed to say that I didn’t even know she had won the Nobel Prize for her discoveries in biochemistry and gene editing.