The code breaker Jennifer Doudna, gene editing, and the future of the human race
(2021)
By:
Isaacson, Walter
Nonfiction
Audiobook CD
Call Numbers:
CD/BIOGRAPHY/DOUDNA,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
[New York] : Audioworks, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio Division, [2021]
℗2021
℗2021
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
13 audio discs (approximately 16 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in
ISBN/ISSN
9781797117041 60e7zm, 1797117041 40e7zm, 9781797117041, 9781797117041
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Title from container
A portrait of the Nobel Prize-winning scientist explores the impact of James Watson's "The Double Helix" on her career and how her team's invention of CRISPR technology enabled revolutionary DNA-editing approaches to fighting disease, as well as curing diseases, fending off viruses, and enhancing our children
Compact discs
Unabridged
Read by Käthe Mazur
CONTENTS
Introduction. Into the breach --
Part one. The origins of life. Hilo ;
Gene ;
DNA ;
Education of a biochemist ;
Human genome ;
RNA ;
Twists and folds ;
Berkeley --
Part two. CRISPR. Clustered repeats ;
Free Speech Movement Café ;
Jumping in ;
Yogurt makers ;
Genentech ;
Lab ;
Caribou ;
Emmanuelle Charpentier ;
CRISPR-Cas9 ;
Science, 2012 ;
Dueling presentations --
Part three. Gene editing. A human tool ;
Race ;
Feng Zhang ;
George Church ;
Zhang tackles CRISPR ;
Doudna joins the race ;
Photo finish ;
Doudna's final sprint ;
Forming companies ;
Mon amie ;
Heroes of CRISPR ;
Patents --
Part four. CRISPR in action. Therapies ;
Biohacking ;
DARPA and anti-CRISPR --
Part five. Public scientist. Rules of the road ;
Doudna steps in --
Part six. CRISPR babies. He Jiankui ;
Hong Kong summit ;
Acceptance --
Part seven. Moral questions. Red lines ;
Thought experiments ;
Who should decide? ;
Doudna's ethical journey --
Part eight. Dispatches from the front. Quebec ;
I learn to edit ;
Watson revisited ;
Doudna pays a visit --
Part nine. Coronavirus. Call to arms ;
Testing ;
Berkeley lab ;
Mammoth and Sherlock ;
Coronavirus tests ;
Vaccines ;
CRISPR cures ;
Cold Spring Harbor virtual ;
Nobel Prize