The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

by Walter Isaacson

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. —Henri

Instead he said that creating great products is important, but what’s even more important is creating a team that can continually make such products. Doudna

his 2021 memoir, How to Be Human, he reflects on whether gene editing should be used, if it becomes feasible, to eliminate some of the causes of autism. “You’d be removing an aspect of the human experience,” he writes, “but for what benefit exactly?”