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What’s on the shelf at Lake Region Library Celeste Ertelt DEVILS LAKE – The Library not charging the $1.00 fee for movies placed in the drop box at this time.  Please feel free to place them in the drop box. For our March Book Club we will be reading Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Book discussion will be on April 7 at 5:30pm. Please see library staff for books and details. Also new book displays honoring Women’s History Month, Irish-American Heritage month, and Love Gone W...

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Anisse Gross March 8, 2021Updated: March 9, 2021, 7:08 am “The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race” by Walter Isaacson Photo: Simon & Schuster The newest biography from Walter Isaacson (“Steve Jobs,” “Leonardo Da Vinci”) bookends with the COVID-19 pandemic, signaling the urgency and opportunity for biotechnology to shape our future. Although it is billed as a biography about Nobel Prize-winning scientist Jennifer Doudna, it turn...

The Code Breakerprofiles Jennifer Doudna, a Nobel Prize-winning biochemist key to the development of CRISPR, and examines the technology's exciting possibilities and need for oversight.

By Walter Isaacson The coronavirus pandemic forced Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier to accept the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry virtually, instead of actually attending the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences’ annual December ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall, where the king of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf, would have given each of them an 18-karat gold medal along with a congratulatory handshake. This year’s gala, like so many events everywhere, was canceled for the first tim...

Biochemist Jennifer Doudna, the subject of Walter Isaacsons new biography The Code Breaker, shared a Nobel prize in chemistry in 2020 for the part she played in developing the CRISPR gene editing technology. Nick Otto/The Washington Post via Getty Images hide caption Biochemist Jennifer Doudna, the subject of Walter Isaacsons new biography The Code Breaker, shared a Nobel prize in chemistry in 2020 for the part she played in developing the CRISPR gene editi...

The Code Breaker is a captivating exploration of geneticist Jennifer Doudnas life, and her life-changing scientific discovery.

Skip to main content Currently Reading Critics picks: 10 March book releases to read, including The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson and a history of Latin music Jim Kiest, Staff writer FacebookTwitterEmail 2of18 3of18 4of18 5of18 Imbolo Mbue, the author of the new book ?’How Beautiful We Were,?“ near her home in Rhinebeck, N.Y., Feb. 15, 2021. The book is a story about how people respond to environmental destruction. It was delayed by the pandemic and before that by the success of her prev...

CBS News This week on "Sunday Morning" (March 7) Host: Jane Pauley It has been 12 months of loss since the coronavirus outbreak in the United States began. Correspondent Martha Teichner takes stock of what weve been through – and perhaps whats to come in the pandemics fallout – with leaders in fields ranging from the economy and civil rights, to the food industry, psychology, urban planning and the arts.  For more info: Point Roberts, Wash., on a peninsula jutting out from Canada beneath ...

Saturday, March 13, 2021 - 5:00pm 2403 Camp Street New Orleans, LA 70130 The Garden District Book Shop is thrilled to welcome Walter Isaacson, returning friend and author, to the home of Katherine & Tony Gelderman where he will discuss The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race. Each ticket includes one signed copy of The Code Breaker and admission to the event. The author will be available to sign and/or personalize books after his discussion. Additional ...