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It's hard to imagine how a gene supermarket, with price points only affordable to the already rich and privileged, would result in anything other than a super-elite class. Those unable to keep up would merely be serfs whose only existence would be to serve the master class. Bio-techno-feudalism, as it were. That is not the world I want to live in. in 2016 when James Clapper, the U.S. Director of National Intelligence, issued the agency's annual "Worldwide Threat Assessment" and it included for the first time "genome editing" as a potential weapon of mass destruction.' Apparently, when a virus infects a bacteria, it inserts a little RNA =>DNA sequence into the host cell. CRISPR is a type of DNA sequence, found in bacteria that have previously been infected by a virus or other invading organism.

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Isaacson is a biographer’s biographer and THE CODE BREAKER shows why his books totally absorb us. He has a way of revealing absorbing truth about his subjects — in this case, biochemist and gene scientist Jennifer Doudna, winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize for the revolutionary DNA-editing tool called CRISPR. The camaraderie in the lab was not an accident: in hiring, Doudna placed as much emphasis on making sure someone was a good fit as she did assessing their research accomplishments.'The Code Breaker will be dated in a matter of months. Better explanations of the technologies involved are emerging every day in popular magazines and newspapers. The technologies themselves are becoming rapidly outdated, with the commentators re-assigning past events' importance for their impact on the future with each discovery. The scientists involved have decades more of careers even if we ignore the ballooning army of newcomers. The heroes and their associations, competitions, inspirations will likely appear utterly different over time.

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The research is still ongoing and very much alive. This technology is promising us A Brave New World of genetic editing. It’s both captivating and terrifying for its multifaceted possibilities. Another important factor to consider is the ability for germline editing to further erode equality of opportunity within society. Could the expense of the technology, and differing regulatory standards in certain countries lead to genetic tourism? If you have the money, just travel to one of the countries that offer the procedure and design your genetically modified little human. How could any governing body or judicial system possibly regulate such a thing? In prima jumatate a secolului XX fizica a fost revolutionata de teoriile lui Einstein si de mecanica cuantica. Absolutely fascinating biography of a great scientist in a field that has made tremendous progress in recent years - much thanks to Jennifer Doudna. I am ashamed to say that I didn’t even know she had won the Nobel Prize for her discoveries in biochemistry and gene editing.Charpentier and Doudna are basic (not applied) researchers, working at public universities, and are as such, not so savvy in patent law and the patent application process. Doudna's most direct opponent in the field of CRISPR research and technology appeared to be Feng Zhang. Although healthy competition can inspire innovation and unleash creativity, I couldn't help but wonder how much ego and competitiveness had slowed progress of this very important research. They seemed to have differing skill sets, and that had they worked together in the race to turn CRISPR into a human gene-editing tool, things may have happened smoother and/or sooner. Putting a practical need for alliances aside, intellectual property disputes and competition for patents and prizes made for an interesting and sometimes even thrilling journey throughout The Code Breaker.

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CRISPR-Cas9 systems can be ‘programmed’ relatively easily and inexpensively, to conduct ‘germline editing’ (i.e. insertion of designer DNA, or deletion of unwanted DNA) into the organism’s genetic code. The human gene pool has just been modified with pretty much no real understanding of the ramifications. The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race is a non-fiction book authored by American historian and journalist Walter Isaacson. Published in March 2021 by Simon & Schuster, it is a biography of Jennifer Doudna, the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work on the CRISPR system of gene editing. [1] An mRNA vaccine uses mRNA to stimulate the previously mentioned CRISPER based processes that ‘seek and destroy’ the alien virus DNA sequences.This book pretends to be a biography, but actually it's about gene editing. About twenty percent of the book is about Jennifer Doudna, forty percent is history of gene editing up to the present, and forty percent is speculation about the future of gene editing. My estimates on percentages are based on my feelings, not careful measurements. The Codebreakers – The Story of Secret Writing ( ISBN 0-684-83130-9) is a book by David Kahn, published in 1967, comprehensively chronicling the history of cryptography from ancient Egypt to the time of its writing. The United States government attempted to have the book altered before publication, and it succeeded in part. [1] Overview [ edit ] For example, this reviewer strongly feels that the industry professionals must narrow down the list to the issues within their domain, where the debates and their resolutions could lead to material or needed change in the methods and bin the rest. The Code Breaker is an incomplete story of science and scientists who are in the throes of creating a fast-unfolding revolution. The book is equivalent of, perhaps, someone writing on Einstein in 1910 - a few years after his first papers on the quanta and special relativity, but way before tens of other more significant discoveries they led to.

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As it turned out the CRISPR story includes some tales of lawsuits caused by the final dash—and subterfuge—for patent rights. Scrambling to get findings published first in a science journal made these scientists look like conceded narcissists. Then when things advanced to the awards stage I was sorry to see some old friendships and partnerships chill as a result of jealousy. Gotta find the silver lining of how the pandemic has catalyzed some good things in addition to the bad! The discovery, analysis, and eventual understanding of the mechanism of CRISPR involves a whole host of characters each building on earlier work, so it's a bit puzzling why Walter Isaacson didn't make this a multiple biography like he did in the book, The Innovators. Code Breaker does end up with numerous mini biographies much like The Innovators.It was good to read about how the scientific community responded to the COVID-19 crisis by open sourcing research information to be used toward the development of test kits and related research. This book offers a short description of the various types of vaccines and the history of their development. There is a also a short description of the bureaucratic idiocy related to the CDC's delay in development of an approved COVID test. Messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) translates genetic information embedded in DNA into instructions for protein synthesis. Patience Agbabi was born in London in 1965 to Nigerian parents, spent her teenage years living in North Wales and now lives in Kent with her husband and children. She has been writing poetry for over twenty years, The Infinite is her first novel. Like Elle, she loves sprinting, numbers and pepper soup, but, disappointingly, her leaping is less spectacular. I will say that I'm not 100% clearly picturing how gene editing works despite the lengthy explanations. But I definitely understood the results. Isaacson leaves no aspect of this story unearthed. He describes the way research labs compete with each other, the various breakthroughs since mapping DNA, the personalities involved, the moral quandaries involved with manipulating genes, and how all this research ultimately enabled the development of the COVID vaccines. On the heels of Doudna and her future husband - then workmate in Chech’s lab - Jamie Cate, unveiling their grand discovery of the three-dimensional structure of RNA, she suffered the news that she would lose her father to melanoma. Sadly, the cancer had metastasized to his brain, and he was given only a short time to live. He was her biggest champion, and in the last months of his life she regaled him with the details of their massive breakthrough.