The code breaker : Jennifer Doudna and the race to understand our genetic code /

The code breaker : Jennifer Doudna and the race to understand our genetic code /

"When Jennifer Doudna was a sixth grader in Hilo, Hawaii, she came home from school one afternoon and found a book on her bed. It was The Double Helix, James Watson's account of how he and Francis Crick had discovered the structure of DNA, the spiral-staircase molecule that carries the gen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Isaacson, Walter (Author), Durand, Sarah (Author, adaptor.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division, [2022]
Edition:Young reader's edition.
Subjects:
Doudna, Jennifer A. > Juvenile literature.
Doudna, Jennifer A.
CRISPR (Genetics) > Juvenile literature.
Gene editing > Juvenile literature.
Genetics > Research > Juvenile literature.
Biochemists > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Nobel Prize winners > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Women scientists > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Gene editing > Moral and ethical aspects > Juvenile literature.
Biotechnology > Juvenile literature.
Young adult literature.
CRISPR (Genetics)
Gene editing.
Genetics > Research.
Édition génique > Ouvrages pour la jeunesse.
JUVENILE NONFICTION > Science & Nature > Biology.
JUVENILE NONFICTION > Science & Nature > Anatomy & Physiology.
JUVENILE NONFICTION > Science & Nature > Disasters.
Biography
Juvenile works.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • The origins of life
  • The CRISPR
  • Gene editing
  • CRISPR in action
  • CRISPR babies
  • The moral questions
  • CRISPR and COVID-19.