The Code Breaker -- Young Readers Edition: Jennifer Doudna and the Race to Understand Our Genetic Code

Walter Isaacson's #1 New York Times bestselling history of our third scientific revolution: CRISPR, gene editing, and...
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The Code Breaker -- Young Readers Edition: Jennifer Doudna and the Race to Understand Our Genetic Code by Isaacson, Walter

The Code Breaker -- Young Readers Edition: Jennifer Doudna and the Race to Understand Our Genetic Code

$40.75

The Code Breaker -- Young Readers Edition: Jennifer Doudna and the Race to Understand Our Genetic Code

$40.75
Author: Walter Isaacson
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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 DNA, 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 DNA, but on what seemed to take a backseat in biochemistry: figuring out the structure of RNA, a closely related molecule that enables the genetic instructions coded in DNA to express themselves. Doudna became an expert in determining the shapes and structures of these RNA 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.

Author: Walter Isaacson
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 04/26/2022
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.59h x 5.83w x 1.16d
ISBN: 9781665910668
Audience: Ages 9-12


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2022
Booklist 04/15/2022 pg. 37

About the Author
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.

Sarah Durand is a New York Times bestselling collaborator who works with celebrities, beauty and wellness experts, professional athletes, CEOs, and women with a mission. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and two daughters.

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