Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
Get the Summary of Walter Isaacson's The Code Breaker in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: 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...
Author
Language
English
Description
Buy now to get the insights from Walter Isaacson's The Code Breaker.
Sample Insights:
1) After her parents moved from Washington, DC, to Hilo, Hawaii, Jennifer Doudna had a rough childhood trying to fit in. This pushed her to focus on science and books.
2) Amid the rich natural environment of Hawaii, Doudna was most fascinated by the "sleeping grass," which curls its fern-like leaves whenever touched.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a gripping account of how the pioneering scientist Jennifer Doudna, along with her colleagues and rivals, launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and enhance our children"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
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!
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...
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...
Author
Publisher
Debate/Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Hay una revolución en marcha, una tecnología prodigiosa que nos va a permitir curar enfermedades, derrotar virus y tener hijos más sanos. A su cabeza está la reciente premio Nobel Jennifer Doudna y sus colegas, protagonistas del nuevo libro de Walter Isaacson. Aunque su profesor de instituto le advirtió que las niñas no podían ser científicas, su búsqueda apasionada de los mecanismos ocultos de la vida y su voluntad por convertir descubrimientos...