The code breaker : Jennifer Doudna and the race to understand our genetic code / Walter Isaacson, with Sarah Durand.
"When Jennifer Doudna was a sixth grader in Hilo, Hawaii, she came home from school one afternoon and found a book on her bed. It was The Double Helix, James Watson's account of how he and Francis Crick had discovered the structure of DNA, the spiral-staircase molecule that carries the genetic instruction code for all forms of life. This book guided Jennifer Doudna to focus her studies not on DNA, but on what seemed to take a backseat in biochemistry: figuring out the structure of RNA, a closely related molecule that enables the genetic instructions coded in DNA to express themselves. Doudna became an expert in determining the shapes and structures of these RNA molecules--an expertise that led her to develop a revolutionary new technique that could edit human genes. Today gene-editing technologies such as CRISPR are already being used to eliminate simple genetic defects that cause disorders such as Tay-Sachs and sickle cell anemia. For now, however, Jennifer and her team are being deployed against our most immediate threat--the coronavirus--and you have just been given a front row seat to that war." -- Amazon.com.
"Walter Isaacson's #1 New York Times bestselling history of our third scientific revolution: CRISPR, gene editing, and the quest to understand the code of life itself, is now adapted for young readers."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781665910668
- ISBN: 1665910666
- ISBN: 9781665910675
- ISBN: 1665910674
- ISBN: 9781665917537
- ISBN: 1665917539
- Physical Description: xiii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition: Young reader's edition; First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Adaptation by Sarah Durand" -- Title page verso. "This young reader's edition is adapted from The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson, published by Simon & Schuster in 2021." -- Title page verso. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-320). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Origins of life. Hilo -- Genes and DNA -- Education of a Biochemist -- RNA -- Twists and folds of structural Biology -- Going west -- CRISPR. In the lab with CRISPR -- Yogurt makers -- Restless -- Building a lab of people -- Starting a company -- Making connections around the World -- Success throught teamwork -- Dueling papers and presentations -- Gene editing. How gene editing works -- Gene-editing race -- Doudna's first competitor -- Doudna's second competitor -- Race heats up -- Photo finsh -- Commercializing CRISPR -- Patents -- When friends drift apart -- CRISPR in action. Making happy, healthy babies -- Ethics of genetic engineering -- Guidelines, regulations, and the government -- CRISPR babies. He Jiankui -- Hong Kong summit -- Acceptance -- Moral questions. Regulating gene editing -- Doudna's ethical journey -- CRISPR and COVID-19. Front lines -- Testing -- Berkley lab -- Companies for the common good -- CRISPR-based Coronavirus tests -- Vaccines -- CRISPR cures -- A virtual return to Cold Spring Harbor -- Nobel Prize -- Next scientific horizon. |
| Target Audience Note: | Ages 8-12 Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. Grades 4-6 Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. 1180L Lexile |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lee County Main Library | J 576.5 ISAACSON (Text) | 33262003274911 | Juvenile Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Andrews Public Library | J 576.5 ISA (Text) | 80605003631248 | Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
| Clemmons Branch | J576.5 I 2022 (Text) | 0112400103688 | Juvenile Nonfiction | Checked out | 05/06/2025 |
| Columbus Library | YA 576.5 ISA (Text) | 31250200083753 | Young Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Denton Public Library | YA 576.5 ISA (Text) | 25908008460938 | Young Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Goldsboro Library | J 576.5 ISA (Text) | 900005000147831 | Juvenile Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Hoke County Public Library | J 576.5 ISAACSON (Text) | 28198050003672 | Juvenile Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Moore County Library | J 576.5 ISA (Text) | 48198030004994 | Juvenile Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Paddison Memorial Branch | J576.5 I 2022 (Text) | 0112400103696 | Juvenile Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Reynolda Manor Branch | J576.5 I 2022 (Text) | 0112400103704 | Juvenile Nonfiction | Available | - |
