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The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a gripping account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies.
When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled The Double Helix on her bed. She put it aside, thinking it was one of those detective tales she loved. When she read it on a rainy Saturday, she discovered she was right, in a way. As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the code of life. Even though her high school counselor told her girls didn’t become scientists, she decided she would.
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 of nature into an invention that will transform the human race: an easy-to-use tool that can edit DNA. Known as CRISPR, it opened a brave new world of medical miracles and moral questions.
The development of CRISPR and the race to create vaccines for coronavirus will hasten our transition to the next great innovation revolution. The past half-century has been a digital age, based on the microchip, computer, and internet. Now we are entering a life-science revolution. Children who study digital coding will be joined by those who study genetic code.
Should we use our new evolution-hacking powers to make us less susceptible to viruses? What a wonderful boon that would be! And what about preventing depression? Hmmm…Should we allow parents, if they can afford it, to enhance the height or muscles or IQ of their kids?
After helping to discover CRISPR, Doudna became a leader in wrestling with these moral issues and, with her collaborator Emmanuelle Charpentier, won the Nobel Prize in 2020. Her story is a thrilling detective tale that involves the most profound wonders of nature, from the origins of life to the future of our species.
Walter Isaacson, a professor of history at Tulane, has been CEO of the Aspen Institute, chair of CNN, and editor of Time. He is the author of Leonardo da Vinci; The Innovators; Steve Jobs; Einstein: His Life and Universe; Benjamin Franklin: An American Life; and Kissinger: A Biography, and the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. Visit him at Isaacson.Tulane.edu.
很难评价,还是不打分了。作者很明显是高质量传记作者,他的能力已经在乔布斯传当中充分展现了,在这本书当中更是展露无疑。science部分不难理解,但是这个作者显然是使用语言的天才。他是Doudna的传记作者,自然是非常天生地需要站在她的那一边。他采用的并非第三方的视角,去“客观”地记录CRISPR的历史。很多事件的发生过程,作者明明有相当大的篇幅可以详细地描述,反而实际上闪烁其词,直接跳到事件发生的那个时刻。但是倒有足够的空间来全文引述一篇新年的email。那一段文字显然效果很好,讽刺效果max,真是骂人于无形。 who tells the story还挺重要的,Lander在cell上的文章是这个目的,这本书同样是这个目的。心潮澎湃大可不必,不过的确是一个励志故事。
评分should be the code breakers. 一开始是抱着Bill Gates 推荐过所以想看,不得不说有点失望。但是看到Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 资助了以后就也没那么意外了。
评分"Great Inventions come from understanding basic science"
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评分最多3.5星吧。与其说这是一本传记不如说是科普。然而作者写科普书的能力远不如其他专业学者。 关于基因编辑的道德问题作者花了很长的篇幅讨论,这个话题写几本书都可以,作者在这方面的理论知识显然还不够。道德问题谁都有权利发言,但写太多了看着很乏味。 零星的点:金字塔尖的竞争很激烈,人尖们犯过的错走过的弯路有借鉴意义,国外的前沿科学研究值得时刻跟进和关注。
基因编辑初听起来对我这样类型的人具有特别的吸引力,后代的个子可以高一点,头发多一点,脑子聪明一点,膝关节耐磨一点,说普通话的时候乡音少一点,炒股的能力强一点,最好能出现六块腹肌。问题在于,科学面前大致人人平等,如果未来每一位小伙子都是膝关节耐磨、长发跟诗人...
评分 评分基因编辑初听起来对我这样类型的人具有特别的吸引力,后代的个子可以高一点,头发多一点,脑子聪明一点,膝关节耐磨一点,说普通话的时候乡音少一点,炒股的能力强一点,最好能出现六块腹肌。问题在于,科学面前大致人人平等,如果未来每一位小伙子都是膝关节耐磨、长发跟诗人...
评分I enjoyed reading the book. I appreciate that Walter has explained the concepts of biochemistry, a subject rather unfamiliar to me, in a both thorough and understandable way, covering a wide range of topics around CRISPR, including the history, the scientif...
评分作者以2020年诺贝尔化学奖得主Jennifer Doudna为主线,讲解了基因编辑技术的发展过程,以及对当下和未来的影响,并将众多研究者饱满地呈现出来。科学知识与人物故事交织在一起,非常精彩的一本书。 作者从19世纪的达尔文和孟德尔,讲到DNA结构被发现,再到人类基因组计划。众多...
The Code Breaker pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025