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Walter Aisekson, the author of the bestsellers of the biographies of Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci and many others, tells how Jennifer Dawudna and other scientists began the revolutionary process that will allow us to fight diseases even more efficiently, win viruses and raise a healthier Office. A genome editing tool developed by Dowed and its colleagues, CRISPR, is already used in the treatment of sickle -cell anemia, cancer and blindness. In 2020, Daudna began to study with her teams how CRISPR could be identified and destroyed by coronavirus. In the same year, Daudna and its co -author Emmanuel Charpentier received the Nobel Prize in chemistry.

Walter Isaexon talks about the life of the Nobel laureate, Jennifer Dawdna, who opened the way to edit the genome. The author begins in the childhood of the heroine in Hawaii and talks about how, at the age of 12, she was inspired by the book of James Watson, Double Spiral, autobiographical work on the opening of the DNA structure. Daudna became a promising young scientist and was able to achieve outstanding successes in her field, becoming one of the leading experts in the field of genetic research. Aisekson talks in detail about how she collaborated with other scientists to make a breakthrough that led to the opening of CRISPR, a system that allows you to edit the genome. genetics. Along with the accessible explanation of the fact that it was Dawdna and her colleagues that opened and developed, this book also examines the less discussed aspects of modern science: the struggle for financing, the contradictions between the goals of academic research (scientific progress) and the interests of the private sector (profit), and difficult The process of publication and patenting discoveries, as well as the confrontation between scientists.