The Breakers Series: Books 1-3

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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 The technologies themselves are becoming rapidly outdated, with the commentators re-assigning past events' importance for their impact on the future with each discovery.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. Driven by a passion to understand how nature works and to turn discoveries into inventions, she would help to make what the book’s author, James Watson, told her was the most important biological advance since his co-discovery of the structure of DNA. She and her collaborators turned ​a curiosity ​of nature into an invention that will transform 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. M-a mai impresionat cata sustinere are cercetarea in SUA. Desi stiam, am descoperit ca este mult mai substantiala decat presupuneam. The development of CRISPR and the race to create vaccines for coronavirus will hasten our transition to the next great innovation revolution. The past half-century has been a digital age, based on the microchip, computer, and internet. Now we are entering a life-science revolution. Children who study digital coding will be joined by those who study genetic code. Onyeka has always hated her hair so it’s ironic that it should turn out to be the source of a spectacular superpower.

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The truly revolutionising work came when Jennifer Doudna and Martin Jinek collaborated with Emmanuelle Charpentier and Krzysztof Chylinski, as they attempted to figure out the mechanisms of the CRISPR-Cas9 enzyme. It was determined that - as Jinek informed Doudna - "Without the tracrRNA, the crRNA guide does not bind to the Cas9 enzyme." Doudna would go on to win the Nobel Prize with Charpentier in 2020, for their pioneering work in CRISPR gene editing. Nu imi dau seama ce procent din volumul de informatii de specialitate am inteles (desi explicatiile sunt foarte bune, pe intelesul multora), dar a fost o calatorie care m-a fascinat si fermecat, acum privesc cu totul altfel acest domeniu. 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. November 17 – December 30, 2023 Admission at 4 pm, 4:30 pm, 5 pm, 5:30 pm and 6 pm. Gates close at 6:30 pm. House & grounds close at 8 pm Some old guys, like this Polish fellow I sometimes encounter in the park while walking my dog, are delightful human beings. And some are not.

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Title is a bit misleading. It is not a full biography of Jennifer Doudna alone. Rather, it’s a biography of CRISPR technology and a detailed story of how it was discovered from fascinating and complicated collaborations between numerous great scientists. The story of CRISPR is not done yet.

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Until 2020, only five women, beginning with Marie Curie in 1911, had won a Nobel for chemistry. But 2020 was the year it went to two women, Jennifer Doudna and French colleague Emmanuelle Charpentier, for the development of CRISPR, a gene editing technology. CRISPR is a type of DNA sequence, found in bacteria that have previously been infected by a virus or other invading organism. On March 22, 2021, Isaacson appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to discuss the book. [3] Reception [ edit ] Cas9 enzymes together with CRISPR sequences form the basis of a technology known as CRISPR-Cas9 used to edit genes within living organisms.This all started in 2012 when Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna dropped a seminal (no pun intended) paper on CRISPR Cas9. Subsequently, Feng Zhang (a guy) nearly made off with all the cash and prizes and in doing so, nearly stole the historical spotlight from Charpentier and Doudna (both women). For the above reasons I would recommend this book only with reservations. I’m glad I read it, but I think it would be an even more powerful book had it been condensed and edited. 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. Witches and vampires, angels and princesses, skeletons and superheroes, get ready! There’s big Halloween fun for the family at Newport’s biggest mansion.

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Also there are quality color photos of a number of scientists, too many for my taste -- sometimes by the time I saw the photo I couldn't remember among the parade of names, discoveries, personality traits and rivalries exactly how that person fit in. I'd rather not have had so many photos, including multiples of Doudna, and have the book be shorter, tighter, minus the photos and so less spendy. In the history of science, there are few real eureka moments, but this came pretty close. “It wasn’t just some gradual process where it slowly dawned on us,” Doudna says. “It was an oh-my-God moment.” When Jinek showed Doudna his data demonstrating that you could program Cas9 with different guide RNAs to cut DNA wherever you desired, they actually paused and looked at each other. “Oh my God, this could be a powerful tool for gene editing,” she declared. In short, they realized that they had developed a means to rewrite the code of life."It was only after he died that I realized how influential he was in my decision to become a scientist." By limiting gene edits to those that are truly "medically necessary," she says, we can make it less likely that parents could seek to "enhance" their children, which she feels is morally and socially wrong.' Apparently, when a virus infects a bacteria, it inserts a little RNA =>DNA sequence into the host cell. 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.