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> That is one of the most incredible things I have ever read. This is even more great reading behind the above: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Doudna
by jjtheblunt 1y ago
> That is one of the most incredible things I have ever read.
This is even more great reading behind the above:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Doudna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Doudna
- bengale 1y agoWalter Isaacson's book "The Code Breaker" is about this subject. I couldn't put it down.
- beoberha 1y agoAll his books are like that. The Innovators is my personal favorite.
- ascorbic 1y agoA rare case where the list of awards she's received is so long it needs a separate Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_awards_and_honors_received_by_Jennifer_Doudna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_awards_and_honors_rece...
- pavlov 1y ago[flagged]
- blangk 1y agoThis seems like a non sequitur.
- sgustard 1y agoI assign only the most nefarious motives to those clowns, but at least her govt profile is intact: https://www.lbl.gov/people/excellence/nobelists/jennifer-doudna/ https://www.lbl.gov/people/excellence/nobelists/jennifer-dou... The fact that this treatment "built on decades of federally funded research" is the scary part, given that such funding may disappear.
- UltraSane 1y agoHopefully only until the next administration.
- jcims 1y agoShe's got a couple of great appearances on RadioLab.
- jjtheblunt 1y agoAlso https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuelle_Charpentier https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuelle_Charpentier
- lysace 1y agoThey shared the Nobel prize for CRISPR. Yet you chose to lead with the American one. :/
- jjtheblunt 1y agoThat's because the link I shared immediately cites Doudna and Charpentier as a team. After edits were disabled, I thought perhaps there's a page for Charpentier too, which there was, but later than i could edit. They're both amazing scientists.
- amelius 1y agoA darker passage in the history of gene editing, but still an interesting story and something not to forget: https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/the-death-of-jesse-gelsinger-20-years-later/ https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/the-death-of...