Summary of The Code Breaker: by Walter Isaacson - Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race - A Comprehensive Summary
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Summary of The Code Breaker - Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race - A Comprehensive Summary
This blockbuster book sees Nobel-winning organic chemist Jennifer Doudna through a wonderful magnifying lens. Toward the beginning of November 2018, twin girls — Humdinger and Nana — were born by caesarian section in a Chinese emergency clinic. Their introduction to the world probably would have gone undetected outside of the family aside from one factor: They were the world's first genetically altered infants.
A Chinese researcher, He Jiankui, altered their genes apparently with an end goal to shield them from being tainted with the HIV infection, utilizing a gene editing tool called CRISPR. The declaration of genetically altered children was met with awfulness and shock, especially in mainstream researchers. He lost his employment and was sentenced to three years in jail.
These potentials and extensive results of quality-altering innovation are topics going through Walter Isaacson's new book The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race.
Coming in at almost 500 pages, the book jumps into the substance of life and the powerful universe of genomes and hereditary coding, or what Isaacson calls "the third extraordinary upheaval of present-day times," following the article, and the piece which prompted the advanced unrest.
For the unenlightened — those people who can't tell their DNAs from RNAs — understanding this new wilderness in science can be somewhat overwhelming. Take this model almost immediately in the book when Isaacson clarifies the distinction between the two:
"RNA (ribonucleic acid) is a particle in living cells that is like DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). However, it has one more oxygen molecule in its sugar-phosphate spine and a distinction in one of its four bases.
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This blockbuster book sees Nobel-winning organic chemist Jennifer Doudna through a wonderful magnifying lens. Toward the beginning of November 2018, twin girls — Humdinger and Nana — were born by caesarian section in a Chinese emergency clinic. Their introduction to the world probably would have gone undetected outside of the family aside from one factor: They were the world's first genetically altered infants.
A Chinese researcher, He Jiankui, altered their genes apparently with an end goal to shield them from being tainted with the HIV infection, utilizing a gene editing tool called CRISPR. The declaration of genetically altered children was met with awfulness and shock, especially in mainstream researchers. He lost his employment and was sentenced to three years in jail.
These potentials and extensive results of quality-altering innovation are topics going through Walter Isaacson's new book The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race.
Coming in at almost 500 pages, the book jumps into the substance of life and the powerful universe of genomes and hereditary coding, or what Isaacson calls "the third extraordinary upheaval of present-day times," following the article, and the piece which prompted the advanced unrest.
For the unenlightened — those people who can't tell their DNAs from RNAs — understanding this new wilderness in science can be somewhat overwhelming. Take this model almost immediately in the book when Isaacson clarifies the distinction between the two:
"RNA (ribonucleic acid) is a particle in living cells that is like DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). However, it has one more oxygen molecule in its sugar-phosphate spine and a distinction in one of its four bases.
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