Издания и произведения

Уолтер Айзексон, автор ставших бестселлерами биографий Стива Джобса, Альберта Эйнштейна, Леонардо да Винчи и многих других, рассказывает, как Дженнифер Даудна и другие ученые начали революционный процесс, который позволит нам еще эффективнее бороться с болезнями, побеждать вирусы и растить более здоровое потомство. Инструмент для редактирования генома, разработанный Даудной и ее коллегами, CRISPR, уже применяется при лечении серповидноклеточной анемии, рака и слепоты. В 2020 году Даудна со своими командами начала изучать, как CRISPR могут выявлять и уничтожать коронавирус. В том же году Даудна и ее соавтор Эммануэль Шарпантье получили Нобелевскую премию по химии.

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. 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…

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…