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）

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書籍簡介

這位寫過列奧納多·達·芬奇(Leonardo da Vinci)和史蒂夫·喬布斯(Steve Jobs)的暢銷書作者在新書中講述了諾貝爾獎得主詹妮弗·杜德納(Jennifer Doudna)和她的同事是如何發起一場革命的，這場革命將使我們能夠治癒疾病，抵禦病毒，並擁有更健康的嬰兒。詹妮弗·杜德納(Jennifer Doudna)上六年級的時候，有一天她回到家，發現爸爸把一本名為《雙螺旋》(The Double Helix)的平裝書忘在她牀上了。她把它放在一邊，心想這是一本她喜歡的偵探小説。當她在一個下雨的週六讀到這本書時，她發現自己在某種程度上是對的。當她快速翻閲這本書時，她被發現生命密碼的競爭背後激烈的戲劇性情節迷住了。儘管她的高中輔導員告訴她的女兒們不會成為科學家，但她還是決定成為科學家。在理解自然如何運作、將發現轉化為發明的熱情驅使下，她將幫助使這本書的作者詹姆斯·沃森(James Watson)告訴她的東西成為自與人共同發現DNA結構以來最重要的生物學進步。她和她的合作者將大自然的好奇心變成了一項將改變人類的發明:一種易於使用的編輯DNA的工具。它被稱為CRISPR，開啟了一個醫學奇蹟和道德問題的美麗新世界。CRISPR的發展和冠狀病毒疫苗的研發競賽將加速我們向下一個偉大的創新革命的過渡。過去的半個世紀是一個以微芯片、計算機和互聯網為基礎的數字時代。現在我們正進入一場生命科學革命。研究數字編碼的孩子將和研究遺傳編碼的孩子一起學習。我們是否應該使用進化黑客的新能力來降低病毒對我們的影響?那將是多麼好的恩惠啊!那麼預防抑鬱症呢?嗯…如果父母有能力，我們是否應該讓他們提高孩子的身高、肌肉或智商?在幫助發現CRISPR之後，杜德納成為了解決這些道德問題的領導者，並與她的合作者艾曼紐·卡彭蒂耶(Emmanuelle Charpentier)一起獲得了2020年的諾貝爾獎。她的故事是一個驚心動魄的偵探故事，涉及自然界最深刻的奇蹟，從生命的起源到人類的未來。

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.

作者簡介

沃爾特·艾薩克森是杜蘭大學的歷史學教授，曾擔任阿斯彭研究所的首席執行官、CNN的主席和《時代》雜誌的編輯。他是列奧納多·達·芬奇的作者;創新者;史蒂夫?喬布斯(Steve Jobs);愛因斯坦:人生與宇宙本傑明·富蘭克林:美國人的生活;以及《基辛格傳記》(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.