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With vaccinations in full swing, gene therapy for cancer may only be few years away.

You know how writers are sometimes asked whom they would like to have over for a small dinner party? Well, historian, biographer and academic Walter Isaacson, out now with another magnificent tome, The Code Breaker, says – with nods to other innovators he’s written about, including Einstein, Steve Jobs and his favorite genius, Leonardo Da Vinci – that his guests would be Benjamin Franklin and Jennifer Doudna. Franklin, whom Isaacson wrote about in 2003, was a prime exemplar of “curiosi...

New books are at the Havre-Hill County Library   From https://havrehilllibrary.org Havre-Hill County Library Staff New fiction "Project Hail Mary" by Andy Weir. From the author of "The Martian" comes another gripping tale of survival in space. Ryland Grace wakes up to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. As Rylands memories fuzzily return, he realizes the magnitude of the task that now confronts him. Hurtling through space on a tiny ship, its up ...

Published April 29, 2021 at 7:01 AM PDT Listen • 58:59 Simon & Schuster Biographer Walter Isaacson discusses the genomic work of Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna to allow for the editing of DNA. Isaacson’s new book, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race, tells the story of how Doudna hit upon an invention that will transform the future of the human race: an easy-to-use tool that can edit DNA. Known as CRISPR, it op...

Jennifer Doudna, inventor of the revolutionary gene-editing tool CRISPR Nick Otto/Getty Images Walter Isaacsons latest book chronicles Jennifer Doudnas discovery of CRISPR, a gene-editing tool.  The 536-page book hits on themes including curiosity driving science and CRISPRs vast potential. Here are five key takeaways from Isaacons biography. The biographer Walter Isaacson has chronicled some of historys most iconic creative peo...

Letter: Don’t trust COVID-19 vaccines? Research their development Durango, Colorado Currently Tue 5% chance of precipitation 13% chance of precipitation 0% chance of precipitation 0% chance of precipitation Tuesday, April 20, 2021 5:03 AM Toggle font size Escuchar en Español: Loading the Español audio player... Deni Blaisch wrote (April 16, “Don’t be a health follower”) about not blindly being a health follower, and stated, “Research a...

Matt Brim $26.95 Brim foregrounds a problem seldom considered by today’s elitist universities. Ivied halls point to well-attended Women’s and LGBTQ+ programs. Even if queer themselves, how many have stopped to consider their position vis-à-vis LGBTQ+ students or allies who are poor, attend “no-name” colleges, whose class and study time are fractured. Many lack a firmly-grounded curriculum, parental assistance; must work extra jobs to continue. Brim speaks from his base at the College o...

At last summer’s Aspen Ideas Festival, held virtually because of the coronavirus pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci said he was “cautiously optimistic” that a vaccine would be available by late 2020 or 2021. The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases was correct, with health care workers some of the first to get vaccinated in December before doses became more widely available this year. Fauci, who also during a March 3, 2020, Aspen Institute podcast warned that a g...

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Walter Isaacson at UC Berkeley while researching his book, ‘The Code Breakers.” If you have received either the Moderna or the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19, you are benefiting from a biomedical tool called CRISPR. CRISPR technology enabled scientists to create both vaccines in record time, bypassing the clumsy and time-consuming methods employed in vaccine development in the past. The historic breakthrough that led to the now widespread use of CRISPR in biomedical labs around th...