![]() ![]() The book, both a biography of Doudna and a deep dive into the ethics of genetic engineering, is written for people who may have heard of CRISPR but don’t know much about the history of its development. Watson would later call CRISPR “the most important discovery since DNA’s structure,” Walter Isaacson writes in The Code Breaker. Today, she credits the book and her insatiable inquisitiveness for driving her to become a scientist and for setting the foundation for her to codiscover, nearly four decades later, a set of molecular scissors called CRISPR that can edit the genetic blueprint of life. Doudna sped through the pages, absorbing how Watson and Francis Crick deciphered the structure of DNA. Noticing that curiosity, Doudna’s father left James Watson’s book The Double Helix on her bed one day. ![]() “What causes the leaves to close when you touch them?” a young Jennifer Doudna wondered growing up in Hawaii. With the slightest touch, the fernlike vine known as sleeping grass folds over on itself, like a Venus flytrap closing its flaps. ![]()
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