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Code Breaker, The: Jennifer Doudna and the Race to Understand Our Genetic Code
Walter Isaacson, with Sarah Durand
Ages: 14+
Published: 2022
Publisher: Simon & Schuster BFYR/S & S
ISBN: 978-1-6659-1066-8
Keywords: medicine, women scientists, revolutionary discoverers
Doudna and other prominent scientists developed a gene-editing tool that is now being used to prevent and cure human diseases, including the Coronavirus. Well documented. Glossary, photographs. Young readers edition of The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race.