Walter Isaacson The Code Breaker
| When: | March 4, 2021 8:00 PM to 9:00 PM |
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| Where: | FL |
| Organizer: | Marcy Levitt |
| Contact: | Marcy Levitt at mlevitt@alperjcc.org |
| Cost: | $10 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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Jennifer Doudna was driven by a passion to understand how nature works and to turn discoveries into inventions, she would help to make the most important biological advance since the 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.
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? 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.
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- 2021-03-04 20:00:00 2021-03-04 21:00:00 America/New_York Walter Isaacson The Code Breaker 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. (http://preview.jewishmiami.org/events/walter_isaacson_the_code_breaker) Please refer to event page Marcy Levitt mlevitt@alperjcc.org
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