The Code Breaker

基本信息

Edited by：Walter Isaacson

Publisher：Simon & Schuster

Published：09 Mar 2021

Language：English

Format Hardback：560 pages

ISBN10：1982115858

ISBN13：9781982115852

Weight：943 g

Dimensions： 163 x 241 x 43（mm）

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

这位写过列奥纳多·达·芬奇(Leonardo da Vinci)和史蒂夫·乔布斯(Steve Jobs)的畅销书作者在新书中讲述了诺贝尔奖得主詹妮弗·杜德纳(Jennifer Doudna)和她的同事是如何发起一场革命的，这场革命将使我们能够治愈疾病，抵御病毒，并拥有更健康的婴儿。詹妮弗·杜德纳(Jennifer Doudna)上六年级的时候，有一天她回到家，发现爸爸把一本名为《双螺旋》(The Double Helix)的平装书忘在她床上了。她把它放在一边，心想这是一本她喜欢的侦探小说。当她在一个下雨的周六读到这本书时，她发现自己在某种程度上是对的。当她快速翻阅这本书时，她被发现生命密码的竞争背后激烈的戏剧性情节迷住了。尽管她的高中辅导员告诉她的女儿们不会成为科学家，但她还是决定成为科学家。在理解自然如何运作、将发现转化为发明的热情驱使下，她将帮助使这本书的作者詹姆斯·沃森(James Watson)告诉她的东西成为自与人共同发现DNA结构以来最重要的生物学进步。她和她的合作者将大自然的好奇心变成了一项将改变人类的发明:一种易于使用的编辑DNA的工具。它被称为CRISPR，开启了一个医学奇迹和道德问题的美丽新世界。CRISPR的发展和冠状病毒疫苗的研发竞赛将加速我们向下一个伟大的创新革命的过渡。过去的半个世纪是一个以微芯片、计算机和互联网为基础的数字时代。现在我们正进入一场生命科学革命。研究数字编码的孩子将和研究遗传编码的孩子一起学习。我们是否应该使用进化黑客的新能力来降低病毒对我们的影响?那将是多么好的恩惠啊!那么预防抑郁症呢?嗯…如果父母有能力，我们是否应该让他们提高孩子的身高、肌肉或智商?在帮助发现CRISPR之后，杜德纳成为了解决这些道德问题的领导者，并与她的合作者艾曼纽·卡彭蒂耶(Emmanuelle Charpentier)一起获得了2020年的诺贝尔奖。她的故事是一个惊心动魄的侦探故事，涉及自然界最深刻的奇迹，从生命的起源到人类的未来。

The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a gripping account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies. When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled The Double Helix on her bed. She put it aside, thinking it was one of those detective tales she loved. When she read it on a rainy Saturday, she discovered she was right, in a way. As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the code of life. Even though her high school counselor told her girls didn't become scientists, she decided she would. Driven by a passion to understand how nature works and to turn discoveries into inventions, she would help to make what the book's author, James Watson, told her was the most important biological advance since his co-discovery 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. The development of CRISPR and the race to create vaccines for coronavirus will hasten our transition to the next great innovation revolution. The past half-century has been a digital age, based on the microchip, computer, and internet. Now we are entering a life-science revolution. Children who study digital coding will be joined by those who study genetic code. Should we use our new evolution-hacking powers to make us less susceptible to viruses? What a wonderful boon that would be! And what about preventing depression? Hmmm...Should we allow parents, if they can afford it, to enhance the height or muscles or IQ of their kids? After helping to discover CRISPR, Doudna became a leader in wrestling with these moral issues and, with her collaborator Emmanuelle Charpentier, won the Nobel Prize in 2020. Her story is a thrilling detective tale that involves the most profound wonders of nature, from the origins of life to the future of our species.

作者简介

沃尔特·艾萨克森是杜兰大学的历史学教授，曾担任阿斯彭研究所的首席执行官、CNN的主席和《时代》杂志的编辑。他是列奥纳多·达·芬奇的作者;创新者;史蒂夫•乔布斯(Steve Jobs);爱因斯坦:人生与宇宙本杰明·富兰克林:美国人的生活;以及《基辛格传记》(the Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made)的合著者。

Walter Isaacson, a professor of history at Tulane, has been CEO of the Aspen Institute, chair of CNN, and editor of Time. He is the author of Leonardo da Vinci; The Innovators; Steve Jobs; Einstein: His Life and Universe; Benjamin Franklin: An American Life; and Kissinger: A Biography, and the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made.