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

Walter Isaacson

Biography / Science

Isaacson follows Jennifer Doudna through the discovery of CRISPR and the global race that followed, including the He Jiankui scandal. The rare biography that doubles as a primer on the ethics of editing the human genome.

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