TY - BOOK AU - Isaacson,Walter TI - The code breaker: Jennifer Doudna, gene editing, and the future of the human race SN - 1398502316 AV - QH440 I83 2021 PY - 2021/// CY - London PB - Simon & Schuster KW - Gene Editing KW - ethics KW - Genetics KW - Computer simulation N1 - P.B N2 - In 2012, Nobel Prize winning scientist Jennifer Doudna hit upon an invention that will transform the future of 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. It has already been deployed to cure deadly diseases, fight the coronavirus pandemic of 2020, and make inheritable changes in the genes of babies. But what does that mean for humanity? ER -