The Resource The code breaker : Jennifer Doudna and the race to understand our genetic code, Walter Isaacson with Sarah Durand
The code breaker : Jennifer Doudna and the race to understand our genetic code, Walter Isaacson with Sarah Durand
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- Summary
- When Jennifer Doudna was a sixth grader in Hilo, Hawaii, she came home from school one afternoon and found a book on her bed. It was The Double Helix, James Watson's account of how he and Francis Crick had discovered the structure of DNA, the spiral-staircase molecule that carries the genetic instruction code for all forms of life. This book guided Jennifer Doudna to focus her studies not on DNA, but on what seemed to take a backseat in biochemistry: figuring out the structure of RNA, a closely related molecule that enables the genetic instructions coded in DNA to express themselves. Doudna became an expert in determining the shapes and structures of these RNA molecules -- an expertise that led her to develop a revolutionary new technique that could edit human genes. Today gene-editing technologies such as CRISPR are already being used to eliminate simple genetic defects that cause disorders such as Tay-Sachs and sickle cell anemia. For now, however, Jennifer and her team are being deployed against our most immediate threat -- the coronavirus -- and you have just been given a front row seat to that war
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Young reader's edition, First edition.
- Extent
- 320 pages
- Note
- This young reader's edition is adapted from The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson, published by Simon & Schuster in 2021
- Isbn
- 9781665910668
- Label
- The code breaker : Jennifer Doudna and the race to understand our genetic code
- Title
- The code breaker
- Title remainder
- Jennifer Doudna and the race to understand our genetic code
- Statement of responsibility
- Walter Isaacson with Sarah Durand
- Subject
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- Gene editing -- Juvenile literature
- Genetics -- Research -- Juvenile literature
- Watson, James D, 1928- -- Juvenile literature
- COVID-19 (Disease) -- Juvenile literature
- Women biochemists -- United States -- Biography | Juvenile literature
- CRISPR (Genetics) -- Juvenile literature
- Doudna, Jennifer A. -- Juvenile literature
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- When Jennifer Doudna was a sixth grader in Hilo, Hawaii, she came home from school one afternoon and found a book on her bed. It was The Double Helix, James Watson's account of how he and Francis Crick had discovered the structure of DNA, the spiral-staircase molecule that carries the genetic instruction code for all forms of life. This book guided Jennifer Doudna to focus her studies not on DNA, but on what seemed to take a backseat in biochemistry: figuring out the structure of RNA, a closely related molecule that enables the genetic instructions coded in DNA to express themselves. Doudna became an expert in determining the shapes and structures of these RNA molecules -- an expertise that led her to develop a revolutionary new technique that could edit human genes. Today gene-editing technologies such as CRISPR are already being used to eliminate simple genetic defects that cause disorders such as Tay-Sachs and sickle cell anemia. For now, however, Jennifer and her team are being deployed against our most immediate threat -- the coronavirus -- and you have just been given a front row seat to that war
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- Isaacson, Walter
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- portraits
- Index
- no index present
- Intended audience
- Ages 10 up
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- Durand, Sarah
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Doudna, Jennifer A.
- Watson, James D
- Women biochemists
- CRISPR (Genetics)
- Gene editing
- Genetics
- COVID-19 (Disease)
- Target audience
- pre adolescent
- Label
- The code breaker : Jennifer Doudna and the race to understand our genetic code, Walter Isaacson with Sarah Durand
- Note
- This young reader's edition is adapted from The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson, published by Simon & Schuster in 2021
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
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- still image
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- txt
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- rdacontent.
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- p2252006761
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- Young reader's edition, First edition.
- Extent
- 320 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781665910668
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, portraits
- Label
- The code breaker : Jennifer Doudna and the race to understand our genetic code, Walter Isaacson with Sarah Durand
- Note
- This young reader's edition is adapted from The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson, published by Simon & Schuster in 2021
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent.
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- p2252006761
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- Young reader's edition, First edition.
- Extent
- 320 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781665910668
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, portraits
Subject
- Gene editing -- Juvenile literature
- Genetics -- Research -- Juvenile literature
- Watson, James D, 1928- -- Juvenile literature
- COVID-19 (Disease) -- Juvenile literature
- Women biochemists -- United States -- Biography | Juvenile literature
- CRISPR (Genetics) -- Juvenile literature
- Doudna, Jennifer A. -- Juvenile literature
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