The code breaker : Jennifer Doudna and the race to understand our genetic code / Walter Isaacson, with Sarah Durand.
"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 of DNA, the spiral-staircase molecule that carries the genetic instruction code for all forms of life. This book guided Jennifer Doudna to focus her studies not on DNA, but on what seemed to take a backseat in biochemistry: figuring out the structure of RNA, a closely related molecule that enables the genetic instructions coded in DNA to express themselves. Doudna became an expert in determining the shapes and structures of these RNA molecules--an expertise that led her to develop a revolutionary new technique that could edit human genes. Today gene-editing technologies such as CRISPR are already being used to eliminate simple genetic defects that cause disorders such as Tay-Sachs and sickle cell anemia. For now, however, Jennifer and her team are being deployed against our most immediate threat--the coronavirus--and you have just been given a front row seat to that war."--Amazon.com
"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"-- Provided by publisher
Record details
- ISBN: 9781665910668
- ISBN: 1665910666
- ISBN: 9781665910675
- ISBN: 1665910674
- ISBN: 9781665917537
- ISBN: 1665917539
- Physical Description: xiii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition: Young reader's edition.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Adaptation by Sarah Durand"--Title page verso "This young reader's edition is adapted from The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson, published by Simon & Schuster in 2021"--Title page verso |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-320). |
Formatted Contents Note: | The origins of life -- The CRISPR -- Gene editing -- CRISPR in action -- CRISPR babies -- The moral questions -- CRISPR and COVID-19. |
Target Audience Note: | Ages 8-12 Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. Grades 4-6 Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. |
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Genre: | Young adult literature. Biography Biographies. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Albright Memorial Library | YOUNG ADULT 92 DOUDNA (Text) | 50686016269180 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Memorial Library of Nazareth and Vicinity | Y 576.5 ISA 2022 (Text) | 31001101872720 | Young Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |
North Pocono Public Library | YOUNG ADULT 92 DOUDNA (Text) | 50691010946833 | Young Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Pottsville Free Public Library | YA 925.1 I (Text) | 30003009160167 | Young Adult | Available | - |
Trone Memorial Library (East Berlin) | YA 576.5 ISAACSON (Text) | 35740635974835 | Young Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Dingman Township Library | YA 92 DOU (Text) | 30352101324142 | YA Nonfiction | Available | - |
Summary:
"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 of DNA, the spiral-staircase molecule that carries the genetic instruction code for all forms of life. This book guided Jennifer Doudna to focus her studies not on DNA, but on what seemed to take a backseat in biochemistry: figuring out the structure of RNA, a closely related molecule that enables the genetic instructions coded in DNA to express themselves. Doudna became an expert in determining the shapes and structures of these RNA molecules--an expertise that led her to develop a revolutionary new technique that could edit human genes. Today gene-editing technologies such as CRISPR are already being used to eliminate simple genetic defects that cause disorders such as Tay-Sachs and sickle cell anemia. For now, however, Jennifer and her team are being deployed against our most immediate threat--the coronavirus--and you have just been given a front row seat to that war."--Amazon.com
"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"--
"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"--