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

by Walter Isaacson

CRISPR in Action If ever man fell ill, there was no defense —no healing food, no ointment, nor any drink— but for lack of medicine they wasted away, until I showed them how to mix soothing remedies. —Prometheus, in Aeschylus’s Prometheus Bound