It’s a hefty but inspiring book that chronicles Doudna’s and others’ development of the gene-editing tool CRISPR. That’s exactly the feeling you’ll have while reading Walter Isaacson’s marvelous biography The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race. When Doudna read James Watson’s book The Double Helix as a sixth grader, she realized that “science can be very exciting, like being on a trail of a cool mystery and you’re getting a clue here and a clue there. Instead, Doudna followed her passion and pursued biochemistry, inspired by her childhood explorations of beaches, meadows and lava flow caves in her hometown of Hilo, Hawaii. Thank goodness Jennifer Doudna didn’t listen to her high school guidance counselor, who told her that girls don’t do science.
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