The Code Breaker

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Walter Isaacson, a professor of history at Tulane, has been CEO of the Aspen Institute, chair of CNN, and editor of Time. He is the author of Leonardo da Vinci; The Innovators; Steve Jobs; Einstein: His Life and Universe; Benjamin Franklin: An American Life; and Kissinger: A Biography, and the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. Visit him at Isaacson.Tulane.edu.

出版者:Simon & Schuster
作者:Walter Isaacson
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页数:560
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出版时间:2021-3-9
价格:USD 29.99
装帧:Hardcover
isbn号码:9781982115852
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The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a gripping account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies.

When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled The Double Helix on her bed. She put it aside, thinking it was one of those detective tales she loved. When she read it on a rainy Saturday, she discovered she was right, in a way. As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the code of life. Even though her high school counselor told her girls didn’t become scientists, she decided she would.

Driven by a passion to understand how nature works and to turn discoveries into inventions, she would help to make what the book’s author, James Watson, told her was the most important biological advance since his co-discovery of the structure of DNA. She and her collaborators turned a curiosity of nature into an invention that will transform the human race: an easy-to-use tool that can edit DNA. Known as CRISPR, it opened a brave new world of medical miracles and moral questions.

The development of CRISPR and the race to create vaccines for coronavirus will hasten our transition to the next great innovation revolution. The past half-century has been a digital age, based on the microchip, computer, and internet. Now we are entering a life-science revolution. Children who study digital coding will be joined by those who study genetic code.

Should we use our new evolution-hacking powers to make us less susceptible to viruses? What a wonderful boon that would be! And what about preventing depression? Hmmm…Should we allow parents, if they can afford it, to enhance the height or muscles or IQ of their kids?

After helping to discover CRISPR, Doudna became a leader in wrestling with these moral issues and, with her collaborator Emmanuelle Charpentier, won the Nobel Prize in 2020. Her story is a thrilling detective tale that involves the most profound wonders of nature, from the origins of life to the future of our species.

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1、 根据我目前的认知,大部分生命活动的调控是精细而复杂的,并非敲除或改变一段序列就能产生显著效果。生命系统的复杂性也预示任意改造一段序列可能会有意外后果。此外,脱靶效应也会限制基因编辑技术的人体应用。所以,大规模的基因设计短时期内还只是个愿景,但早早开始考...  

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作者以2020年诺贝尔化学奖得主Jennifer Doudna为主线,讲解了基因编辑技术的发展过程,以及对当下和未来的影响,并将众多研究者饱满地呈现出来。科学知识与人物故事交织在一起,非常精彩的一本书。 作者从19世纪的达尔文和孟德尔,讲到DNA结构被发现,再到人类基因组计划。众多...  

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1、 根据我目前的认知,大部分生命活动的调控是精细而复杂的,并非敲除或改变一段序列就能产生显著效果。生命系统的复杂性也预示任意改造一段序列可能会有意外后果。此外,脱靶效应也会限制基因编辑技术的人体应用。所以,大规模的基因设计短时期内还只是个愿景,但早早开始考...  

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作者以2020年诺贝尔化学奖得主Jennifer Doudna为主线,讲解了基因编辑技术的发展过程,以及对当下和未来的影响,并将众多研究者饱满地呈现出来。科学知识与人物故事交织在一起,非常精彩的一本书。 作者从19世纪的达尔文和孟德尔,讲到DNA结构被发现,再到人类基因组计划。众多...  

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这本书主要围绕Jennifer Doudna, 回顾了CRISPR和基因编辑的探讨. 写的跌宕起伏, 描述了科学研究者之间秘密竞争同时又对自然保护好奇心展开合作. 不同的研究者展示了非常不一样的个性. 后面几章讨论bioethics 和人类基因改造, 我不大喜欢. 作者自己个人想法太多,觉得有点肤浅, ...  

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这本书的写法太闷了,吸引人的反而是那些争议角色,比如口无遮拦的沃森,或者死捧弟子的Eric Lander,其他角色都立不起来。好在crispr周围的抓马就算遇到这种笔触也丝毫没有减少八点档特质。伦理部分非常浅,有大段丝毫没有建设性的“上帝”“自然”讨论,这都什么年代了。在我看来社交网络还邪恶得要死呢,但人家已经在这里了,好好拆分和针对性解决吧。有朝一日我一定能等来有个性有文笔还不谈上帝的生物学家重写这段往事的

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A bit all over the place, but enligtening and informative. I'm learning things I didn't know and I thoroughly enjoyed the chapters where Issacson explored the ethical issues surrounding gene editing.

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其实应该叫The Code Breakers,除了Doudna and Charpentier, 作者对Zhang Feng的评价也很高,作者一直在强调对于基础科学研究的重要性,在十四五计划也有强调,期待各国能加大科研投入for a greater good

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should be the code breakers. 一开始是抱着Bill Gates 推荐过所以想看,不得不说有点失望。但是看到Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 资助了以后就也没那么意外了。

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科普的部分已经在其它书里见过了,传记的部分又不是很有意思。

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