{"product_id":"the-code-breaker","title":"The Code Breaker","description":"\u003cp\u003eWalter Isaacson. Used. Very fine condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Double Helix\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e on her bed. As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the code of life. Even though her high school counselor told her girls didn’t become scientists, she decided she would.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDriven by a passion to understand how nature works and to turn discoveries into inventions, she would help to make what the book’s author, James Watson, told her was the most important biological advance since his co-discovery of the structure of DNA. She and her collaborators turned \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ea curiosity of nature into an invention that will transform the human race: an easy-to-use tool that can edit DNA. Known as CRISPR, it opened a brave new world of medical miracles and moral questions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe development of CRISPR and the race to create vaccines for coronavirus will hasten our transition to the next great innovation revolution. The past half-century has been a digital age, based on the microchip, computer, and internet. Now we are entering a life-science revolution. Children who study digital coding will be joined by those who study genetic code.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShould we use our new evolution-hacking powers to make us less susceptible to viruses? What a wonderful boon that would be! And what about preventing depression? Hmmm…Should we allow parents, if they can afford it, to enhance the height or muscles or IQ of their kids?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Books \u0026 Brew","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47537985028269,"sku":null,"price":20.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/booksandbrew.net\/products\/the-code-breaker","provider":"Books And Brew","version":"1.0","type":"link"}