Walter Isaacson, best-selling author of biographies of Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci and more, shares how Jennifer Downa and others have begun a revolutionary process that will enable us to fight disease more effectively, beat viruses and grow healthier people. offspring. The genome-editing tool developed by Dowdna and her colleagues, CRISPR, is already being used in the treatment of sickle cell anemia, cancer and blindness. In 2020, Dowdna and her teams began studying how CRISPR could detect and destroy the coronavirus. In the same year, Downa and her co-author Emmanuelle Charpentier received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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