6/21/2023 0 Comments A crack in creation gene editing![]() ![]() While Jennifer Doudna has been involved in a publicized patent battle that pits UC Berkeley, where her lab is based, with the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, you won’t find any gossipy details of that dispute in this book. Doudna, but she largely maintains a more academic voice than a tell-all about the dramas surrounding CRISPR. There are some personal anecdotes from Prof. She walks us through the discovery, development, and potential of CRISPR to manipulate biology and re-ignite ethical debates over gene editing. ![]() ![]() The excitement of explaining this powerful new technology comes with a weight of responsibility over what CRISPR might do for good or ill. Doudna’s perspective (so I’ll refer to her throughout this review, sorry Sam). The book, “ A Crack In Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution“, is written from Prof. Famed CRISPR researcher Jennifer Doudna, along with a past student Samuel Sternberg (starting his own lab in at Columbia University), wrote an account of her CRISPR discoveries and the possibilities the technology unleashes. ![]()
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