Summary of The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson

by A.S. Summary

SUMMARY OF THE CODE BREAKER BY WALTER ISAACSON DISCLAIMERTHIS PUBLICATION IS AN INDEPENDENT WORK OF A.S SUMMARY. IT IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE OF THE MAIN BOOK BUT A GUIDE. When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find her father had left a paperback called The Double Helix on her bed. He put it aside and thought it was one of those detective stories he liked. When he read it on a rainy Saturday, he realized he was right. Flipping through the pages, he fell under the spell of an intense drama behind the competition to discover the code of life. Although her school counselor told her daughters that they weren't going to be scientists, she decided they would.Driven by a passion for understanding how nature works and turning discoveries into inventions, she would help make what the author of the book, James Watson, told her to be the most important biological breakthrough since they shared the DNA structure. She and her colleagues turned a curiosity for nature into an invention that will change an easy-to-use tool that can manipulate DNA. Known as CRISPR, it opened up a brave new world of medical wonders and moral questions.The development of CRISPR and the race to manufacture coronavirus vaccines will accelerate our transition to the next big innovation revolution. The last half-century has been a digital age based on the microchip, the computer, and the Internet. We are now entering a revolution in the life sciences. Children studying digital coding are accompanied by children studying genetic code.Should we use our new scalable hacking powers to make ourselves less vulnerable to viruses? What a blessing that would be! And what about preventing depression?

14 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 9, 2021

Reviews

[Jes · Rating 1 out of 5]

Don’t Bother

Evidently, this summary was written in such a hurry, with such lack of responsibility and such disdain disdain for the buyer that the summary was not edited for correct content or grammar.

[John Rynes · Rating 1 out of 5]

The summary is nearly irrelevant. I need the whole book.

[Roger H · Rating 1 out of 5]

Free Download is exactly what it is worth

Ten pages of common knowledge and praise for the author. I will wait another book about CRISPR & the researchers