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“The Code Breaker”: Jennifer Doudna and how CRISPR may revolutionize mankind

Walter Isaacson, the bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs, returns to tell the story of Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and the scientific revolution she and her colleagues launched by developing CRISPR genome editing technology in The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, CRISPR, and the Future of the Human Race.

“The biotech revolution is going to be 10 times more important than the digital revolution, because it allows us to hack the code of life. And we shouldn’t be afraid of using this technology to make ourselves healthier.”

Walter Isaacson, Author of The Code Breaker

CBS News Sunday Morning spoke with Isaacson and Doudna about the promise and perils of the revolutionary technology.

Watch the interview on CBS News.

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After the Nobel, What Next for CRISPR Gene-editing Therapies?

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CRISPR has transformed the possibilities for curing diseases caused by one or several genetic mutations. Clinical trials for therapies that utilize the genome editing technology are already underway for debilitating conditions such as sickle-cell anaemia, delivering treatments in disease areas where none currently exist.

Jennifer Doudna wins 2020 Nobel Prize

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Innovative Genomics Institute founder and University of California, Berkeley, biochemist Jennifer Doudna today won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with collaborator Emmanuelle Charpentier for their co-development of CRISPR-Cas9, a genome editing breakthrough that allows scientists to rewrite DNA, the code of life.