Jennifer A. Doudna, Samuel H. Sternberg

Broschiertes Buch

A Crack in Creation

Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution

Beschreibung

A trailblazing biologist grapples with her role in the biggest scientific discovery of our era:a cheap, easy way of rewriting genetic code, with nearly limitless promise and peril.

Autor

JENNIFER A. DOUDNA, Ph.D. is a professor in the Chemistry and the Molecular and Cell Biology Departments at the University of California, Berkeley, investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and researcher in the Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She is internationally recognized as a leading expert on RNA-protein biochemistry, CRISPR biology, and genome engineering. Along with Emmanuelle Charpentier, she was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their research on CRISPR-Cas9. She lives in the Bay Area.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 133mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 250g
• ISBN-13: 9781328915368
• ISBN-10: 1328915360
• Artikelnr.: 50507795