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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 Wrong. Fast Ice by Clive Cussler (Adult Fiction). In the early days of World War II, the infamous Ger...

In early November 2018, twin girls — Lulu and Nana — were delivered by caesarian section in a Chinese hospital. Their birth probabably would have gone

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 turns out to be more about the powers of the scientific community and gene-editing technology. Doudna is...

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 time in decades. The landmark research that brought Doudna and Charpentier to the pinnacle of global ac...