Julie’s Reviews > The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race > Status Update
Julie
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I am able to understand it but it is slow going. I stop and think about the process often. Interesting and readable, but I get impatient with the slow going so I'll come back to it in pieces. So far it has explained CRISPR and has introduced us to Jennifer Doudna as well as several other players. Bacteria can alter their DNA to immunize themselves from Virus that have attacked them...
— Dec 17, 2022 11:12AM
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Julie
is on page 259 of 536
I then returned to The Code Breaker for another 50 pages. Again we are immersed in how complicated giving credit to the correct scientist(s) when several in different parts of the world worked to develop something as earthshattering as a procedure that can cure virus born diseases, many cancers, and even some genetic diseases!
— Nov 05, 2025 11:05AM
Julie
is on page 216 of 536
In this section Jennifer and friends/ associates try to go commercial, that is start a company to look for medical applications for CRISPR. They had with mixed results. Part of the problem was that at first nobody knew what it was and no one wanted to invest. Then, of course as it became understood, everyone wanted to claim credit and/or beat Jennifer to the market.
— Sep 14, 2023 01:20PM
Julie
is on page 103 of 536
I am now about to head back to The Code Breaker. The subject of this book, Doudna, was behind the vaccine for Covid. Though it is fairly technical and gives me a headache occasionally, I have read enough of Robin Cook to have some idea of how stunning results of splitting (cutting and pasting) parts of DNA can be.
— Sep 06, 2023 12:28PM
Julie
is on page 37 of 536
It is about the use of CRISPR technology to create the vaccine for the Corona Virus. I had expected this book to be dry and way above my head, but by incorporating personalities in a story format, at least the first 35 pages have been readable. It also has short chapters which makes it easier to deal with interruptions.
— Dec 07, 2022 02:45PM
