The codebreaker by walter isaacson6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Further, there is a clear cause-and-effect chain linking these scientists. It connects Gregor Mendel in the late 1850s to Emmanuelle Charpentier in 2011. The line stretches through geographies and generations, as Ishino worked in Japan, Mojica in Spain, and Doudna in Berkeley. ![]() coli, to Francisco Mojica, who discovered these sequences were immune mechanism CRISPRs, to Doudna, whose focused on uncovering how CRISPR works. Isaacson stresses the point by drawing a line from Yoshizumi Ishino, who first noticed spacer sequences in E. Though the book is partly a biography of Jennifer Doudna, it is also an ode to all the scientists who made accomplishments in gene editing possible. It’s not merely a matter of semantics scientific collaboration forms the backbone of most of the important discoveries detailed in the book. The word “collaboration” crops up almost 80 times in the text of The Code Breaker, besides showing up in references and acknowledgements. ![]()
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