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A crack in creation7/5/2023 Writing with fellow researcher Samuel Sternberg, here she provides the definitive account of her discovery, explaining how this wondrous invention works and what it is capable of. Jennifer Doudna is the co-inventor of this technology, known as CRISPR, and a scientist of worldwide renown. Thanks to it, the dreams of genetic manipulation have become a stark reality: the power to cure disease and alleviate suffering, to create new sources of food and energy, as well as to re-design any species, including humans, for our own ends. It is an invention that allows us to rewrite the genetic code that shapes and controls all living beings with astonishing accuracy and ease. This book is about the most recent and potentially the most powerful and dangerous of them all. A handful of discoveries have changed the course of human history. Jennifer Doudna, the world-famous scientist behind CRISPR, `one of the most monumental discoveries in biology’ (New York Times), describes its power to reshape the future of all life and warns of its use.
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