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A Crack In Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
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Most mornings when she is in her lab, Doudna schedules a steady stream of her researchers to come present their most recent results. Her questions tend to be Socratic: Have you thought about adding RNA? Can we image that in living cells? “She has a knack for asking the right critical big questions when you’re developing your project,” says Jinek.
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There was one competition in Doudna’s life that stands out for becoming heated and then bitter: the race in 2012 to show how CRISPR could edit the genes of humans.
Walter Isaacson • The Code Breaker
In the history of science, there are few real eureka moments, but this came pretty close. “It wasn’t just some gradual process where it slowly dawned on us,” Doudna says. “It was an oh-my-God moment.” When Jinek showed Doudna his data demonstrating that you could program Cas9 with different guide RNAs to cut DNA wherever you desired, they actually
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