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The Breakers Series: Books 1-3

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The science, a lot of it is minutiae and covering the scientists, the labs, the competition, the biotech companies, the patents, the prizes, the open sourcing, the biohackers, the uses and abuses, the personal traits of Watson and some others -- it's ironic because this technology depends on very specific sequences being worked out and inserted very carefully by very specific methods into very specific cells. 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. Isaacson frequently puts himself into the narrative, writing in first person about his encounters and reactions. The technologies themselves are becoming rapidly outdated, with the commentators re-assigning past events' importance for their impact on the future with each discovery. Her engagement in a project would increase when it came nearer to completion, as her excitement would see her wanting a competitive edge over other labs who may beat hers to a discovery.

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This is despite the book not having the best explanations of CRISPR/gene editing or with its pre-conceived take on various players' contributions.Although, admittedly, the scientific and technical jargon became difficult to follow at times, there was often an under thread of competition and excitement that kept me reading. Isaacson would have benefited from the ministrations of a much stricter editor; all that human interest stuff could be cut by a third and the story would not suffer. Jan and I took on this massive book about Jennifer Doudna, and while we were very interested in some of the story, there were parts that seemed overloaded and repetitive. That said, after having heard that there was a new type of technology being used for the Corona shots, a type of injection that would change my DNA and insert a microchip in my body (Whoa!

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Now that I'm familiar with the technology I'm seeing articles with great frequency and the basic background is helpful for some. What we get in terms of illustrations is many, many pictures of scientists - replace about half of those with illustrative drawings of the various natural and man-made processes for gene editing, and those who are so inclined (I would be one) could study those and come to a clear understanding of the science and technology involved. Possibly the topic is just too dense for me, and possibly the author had a hard time paring down and organizing some of the facts of CRISPR. I read The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race for a few reasons, one to have some talking points when people say nonsense about vaccines, and another because I always like to have a "respectable" book to talk to patients about so I don't have to reveal that I enjoy alien/human romances.As time went on, other scientists realized that if bacteria could modify their own DNA, it might be useful to understand how they do it; and then it was a short step from that discovery to finding a way to use the method to create vaccines that employed messenger RNA to allow humans' immune system to recognize and fend off viruses. 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. Although one may be inclined to feel that gene modification and selection is playing God and should be left to chance, another may think it cruel and unusual not to use every tool in the workbench to make sure all living beings have a fair chance at a good life. But this book about it is both too specific and too broad and, because the science is moving very quickly in many directions, in places outdated already.

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