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Too many #powerful women to count.
A few: Eleanor Roosevelt, Kamala Harris,Jennifer Doudna,various women living in the Barbizon Hotel in NYC, author Barbara Pym,& Paula Huntley who started a bookclub in Kosovo after the war in late 1990s.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I really enjoyed most of this book about the discoveries and scientists behind CRISPR gene editing technology. The author uses Dr. Doudna as a way into the story but it really wasn‘t about her. It got bogged down a bit in repeating the ethical arguments for and against using the technology and in what cases it‘s appropriate, but overall it was really interesting.

#newyearnewbooks #artist #day13 #womeninscience #day14
My husband read The Code Breaker & loved it. Of course for me it‘s a #TBR
The graphic novel of Hilma of Klint is wonderful!

This was a great book and very interesting. It was also very scary what can be done with gene editing. There are diseases that can be cured but a person can also create a designer baby. I am not sure how I feel about creating a designer baby and what are the repercussions of doing so? Very interesting book! We shall see what the future holds for gene editing.

I expected to love this and, well, I didn‘t. Don‘t get me wrong, Dr Doudna is amazing and has had an extraordinary career with fabulous contributions to humanity, but this book is poorly organized and rather disjointed. I appreciate that Isaacson made a point of showing that scientific discoveries build on previous work, meaning many people should be lauded, but this book needed some serious editing.

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Perhaps one of the best books I‘ve ever read, it is certainly one of the most interesting and well written biographies I‘ve ever read. Combines all the history and science that lead up to Dr. Doudna‘s discoveries and current contributions to CRISPR technology, as well as emphasizing all the other major players.

This was very good. It helps to have some knowledge of biology and biotech. It is a dense book, with many topics from biology, philosophy, to inter-relationships it was interesting to see how scientist complete and work together. Really fascinating is how Isaacson started research on something so fundamental to SARS to then end up in a pandemic of an offshoot of the virus. What great timing.

Saturday afternoon delight.

#weekendreading @andrew65
Every heart is a doorway is due back at the library, so need to crack it and speed through it, luckily it is super short
Code Breaker & Shadow of Empress both impressive books I have about 200 pages of each to get through so hoping to finish both this weekend.
My bedside table book is The Paris Apartment and I need to read the first chapter of 1619 Project for #1619groupread the discussion there has been wonderful

Love the focus on a female scientist. But, this book (necessarily) gets into the weeds in science and that cuts into the readability for me.

I have a minimalistic understanding of biology, DNA, gene editing, and radical discoveries and inventions in the life sciences…but I loved this book. The race to understand and uncover the science, the collaboration, the moral questions, the rivalries, the triumphs, the looking forward and reflection on the past…those were the stories I loved. I‘m a sucker for well told human interest stories.

This isn‘t a narrative-style biography, it‘s more of a factual, reporter‘s style, with lots of snippets throughout of new added characters and events. I did enjoy the in-depth look at science and how viruses and vaccines work. And it‘s fascinating to learn about how scientists both contribute and compete with one another. An amazing book, I just have a personal preference of narrative in-depth characterization in bios.

A dense, detailed read focusing on 2020 Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and chemist Emmanuelle Charpentier and their work on uncovering the coded enzymes of DNA that contributed to the formation of CRISPR and assisted in a vaccine to combat COVID-19. The book also looks at the all the scientists involved in the process including the Watson-Crick controversial double helix study. For science buffs.

Started this book and so far I‘m loving it!! I am a huge fan of science!! 🧬 🧪

I'm not sure how to review this. I found Jennifer Doudna to be a somewhat bland personality, but the history of CRISPR and gene editing was fascinating. So many people were involved in its creation and advancement, most more colorful than Doudna. I can't help thinking about climate change while listening to this book. Might we one day be forced to alter humans to survive a harsher future, create a mankind more tolerant ⬇️⬇️ Cont. in comments

5⭐️ As I expect from author Walter Isaacson, this is full of science, even handed portrayals yet what presents as honest assessments of the amazing breakthrough work in Gene editing. Read this and inform yourself about the pandemic, the science behind the vaccines and the implications for our future. Isaacson focuses on Jennifer Doudna, nobel prize winner and leader in the Crispr technology that became so vital over the last year. Great read!

My progress from Day 1 of #20in4. Quite a variety in reading material! 😁📚📚

My first book I have bailed on this year. Maybe it‘s because I work in science that I just found all the science history/background tangents unnecessary and not grabbing me into the story. Maybe I‘ll try again another time.

🎧 Not your average biography. There‘s very little about Jennifer Doudna‘s personal life.

This book takes on science in a way that the lay person can parse. How & why did Dr Doudna take CRISPR from inception to a Nobel prize? There are mini-biographies of the many scientists involved in this technology & Hollywood-like court battles.

I found Part 7 particularly interesting as it delves into, should we?

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🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 What a beautiful, remarkable book! The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson is about fathoming the joyful and inspiring wonders of life through the lens of CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) which are the hallmark of a bacterial defense system that forms the basis for CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing technology. Scientific in nature, but Isaacson's approach is akin to a detective novel where 👇

Got this signed edition from #ParnassusBooks after attending a virtual event where Walter Isaacson was interviewed by John Meacham- read it! Want to know how the Covid Vaccine got done? Well here is the timely story of Crispr and genetic engineering- fascinating! Happy Easter all!

I loved this book. It had so many things that I‘m interested in and value: CRISPR discovery, women in science, international collaboration, competition, fascinating explanation of how COVID testing and the RNA based vaccinations work, discussions of people- their faults and geniuses, and the future of science. It inspired and installed my faith in humanity.

As I'm sitting here reading and revisiting Litsy pals, any book swaps coming up? Or needed donations of books to anyone?
Thanks in advance 🤓🤙❤️

A new MacBook Air, a very cute little dog and a great new book. What could be better on a Sunday morning? Not much 🤙
PS: the MacBook is a refurbished to perfection, with an i7 core, 8GB and works perfect! I've been wanting another MacBook for 17 years - now I've got it. The store I purchased from is called Fleetwood-Macbooks on eBay...they are awesome!!
#sundayreading

"Darwin had in his personal library a copy of an obscure scientific journal that contained an article, written in 1866, with the answer. But he never got around to reading it..."

There is a lesson in here somewhere.

Ooooo I want to read or listen to this ... seems like I‘m gonna have to bump something off my library hold list .... 😡😋