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POLITICO Get the California Playbook Newsletter Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. 03/12/2021 09:00 AM EST THE BUZZ — A LONG TIME GONE — A year ago this week, we changed forever: Schools were ordered closed, sports games canceled, theme parks shuttered. The word “quarantine” became a part of the vocabulary of Ca...

The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson review – a science page-turner Designer babies and ethical quicksand ... The biographer of Steve Jobs tells the story of Jennifer Doudna and the development of gene-editing Jennifer Doudna with her Nobel gold medal, December 2020. Photograph: Jeff Chiu/Associated Press/EPA Jennifer Doudna with her Nobel gold medal, December 2020. Photograph: Jeff Chiu/Associated Press/EPA Thu 11 Mar 2021 02.30 EST One of the most striking passages in Walter Isaacson’s new book comes towards the end. It is 2019 and a scientific meeting is under way at the famous C...

Walter Isaacson, one of America’s foremost biographers, recently told me that he sees three fundamental units as the cornerstones of 20th-century innovation: the bit, the atom, and the gene. Having written about Steve Jobs and Albert Einstein—embodiments of the first two—in previous works, in his latest book, The Code Breaker , [reviewed in this issue of Science ][1], Isaacson’s focus turns to the gene. His story centers on the life of biochemist Jennifer Doudna, who, together with Emmanuelle Charpentier, won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their pioneering work on the gene editi...

“The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing and the Future of the Human Race,” by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster) Walter Isaacson did a masterful job on his biography of Steve Jobs, a hard-to-like character who revolutionized six industries – personal computers, phones, music, animated movies, tablet computing and digital publishing. In “Code Breaker,” Isaacson’s […]

Mar 10, 2021 at 6:30AM You may know Walter Isaacson from his biographies of Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo Da Vinci, or Albert Einstein. In his latest book, the author, journalist, and professor tells the story of a new subject who has had a huge impact on the scientific community, the gene-editing field, and even the coronavirus pandemic: Dr. Jennifer Doudna.  In this March 9, Fool.com Bureau Chief Corinne Cardina interviews Isaacson about his new book titled The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race. Corinne Cardin...