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Book review: ‘The Code Breaker’ is a fascinating look at a genetics discovery – The Columbus Dispatch
‘The Code Breaker’ is a captivating exploration of geneticist Jennifer Doudna’s life, and her life-changing scientific discovery.
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 acknowledged their groundbreaking work in the discovery of a gene-editing tool that can attack viruses, which pointed to a new era in science. As the secretary general of the Royal Swedish Academy said in making the announcement, “These genetic scissors have taken the life sciences into a new epoch.”
The dramatic…
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