The same life-changing event — receiving a copy of “The Double Helix” — happened early on to Jennifer Doudna, the subject of “The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing and the Future of the ...

You know how writers are sometimes asked whom they would like to have over for a small dinner party? Well, historian, biographer and academic Walter Isaacson, out now with another magnificent tome, ...

Much like a sailboat tacking into a fierce wind, Walter Isaacson’s “biography” of gene-editing pioneer Jennifer Doudna bounces all over the genetic spectrum. He starts “The Code Breaker” like a ...

"The Code Breaker" (Simon & Schuster), the latest book from Walter Isaacson, bestselling biographer of geniuses from Leonardo da Vinci and Benjamin Franklin to Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs, tells ...

Mark Gordon Pictures nabbed the screen rights to Walter Isaacson's 'The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race,' a book about Nobel Prize-winning gene editing ...

When Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, they became only the sixth and seventh women to do so; the first being Marie Curie in 1911. The Nobel ...

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