The world-famous scientist behind 'one of the most monumental discoveries in biology' explores its devastating power to change the course of human history
Jennifer Doudna (Author)
Jennifer Doudna is Professor of Chemistry and of Molecular and Cell
Biology at University of California, Berkeley, and co-inventor of
the CRISPR technology, for which she has been awarded many of the
most distinguished prizes available, including the 2015 $3 million
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences and the 2020 Nobel Prize in
Chemistry.
That same year she was listed among the 100 most influential people
in the world by Time. In 2016 she had the rare honour of being
elected a foreign member of the Royal Society. She speaks around
the world about CRISPR and its implications for our future.
Samuel Sternberg (Author)
Samuel Sternberg received his PhD from the University of
California, Berkeley, in 2014, and was a member of Jennifer
Doudna's laboratory from 2010 to 2015. He is a biochemist and
author of numerous high-profile scientific publications on the
CRISPR technology.
The most important advance of our era. One of the pioneers of the
field describes the exciting hunt for the key breakthrough and what
it portends for our future
*Walter Isaacson*
Too important … What may happen thanks to Doudna’s [discovery] is
dizzying … for her, this is the future of medicine. If she’s right,
then Crispr is about to make our present healthcare concerns look
surprisingly trivial
*Sunday Times*
One of the architects of this miraculous biological technique …
explains the science clearly and excitingly as a kind of globalist
detective story
*Telegraph*
Probably the greatest biological breakthrough since that of Francis
Crick, James Watson and Rosalind Franklin… We owe Doudna several
times over – for her discovery, for her zeal to take it from the
lab into the clinic, for her involvement in the ethical issues
raised, for her public engagement work, and now for this book
*Guardian*
An urgent plea from the celebrated biologist whose discovery
enabled us to rewrite the code of life. The future is in our hands
as never before, and this book explains the stakes like no
other
*George Lucas*
Urgent, riveting and endlessly fascinating, this book is destined
to become an instant classic. Read it if you want to understand our
biological future
*Siddhartha Mukherjee*
In this wonderful book … Doudna’s and Sternberg’s simple but
compelling exploration of this hugely important subject offers and
excellent overview of this startling and unprecedented
discovery
*Literary Review*
An exhilarating and frightening roadmap to our future by one of the
most pioneering women in science
*Arianna Huffington*
Jennifer Doudna is the true pioneer who built the bridge between
the basic science of CRISPR and its diverse applications. Now is
the time to read about the revolution that could change our
world
*George Church*
A scientific thriller and a gripping read by a brilliant
scientist
*Venki Ramakrishnan*
One of the most monumental discoveries in biology
*New York Times*
A detailed account of the story so far. It may well end up being
compared with the book that inspired a 12-year-old Doudna in the
first place: James Watson’s The Double Helix … Packed with amazing
female scientists, it is thrilling, generous and no less personal …
We need scientifically informed conversations about what we should
do next with these powers, and Doudna’s book is a good place to
begin
*New Scientist*
A welcome new contribution to the [gene editing] debate… She should
be congratulated for being one of the very few scientists involved
in a breakthrough to write a timely, popular personal account…
Doudna’s style, more contemplative than Watson or Venter, is just
as effective at describing the increasingly frantic pace of life in
the lab, as researchers realise that epoch-making discoveries are
in the offing. She tells the scientific back-story particularly
well… The arguments are rehearsed with admirable clarity
*Financial Times*
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