History & Biography Book Group

Program Type:

Book Club

Age Group:

Adults
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Program Description

Event Details

Join us to discuss The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson  Driven by a passion to understand how nature works and to turn discoveries into inventions, Jennifer Doudna would help to make ….the most important biological advance since his codiscovery of the structure of DNA. She and her collaborators turned a curiosity of nature into an invention that will transform the human race: an easy-to-use tool that can edit DNA. Known as CRISPR, it opened a brave new world of medical miracles and moral questions….
Should we use our new evolution-hacking powers to make us less susceptible to viruses? And what about preventing depression? …Should we allow parents, if they can afford it, to enhance the height or muscles or IQ of their kids?
 

Copies of the book are  limited. Registration is required. Please call, email, or inquire at your branch for more information. 

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