Thursday, October 15, 2026

The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson

 Title: The Code Breaker

Author: Walter Isaacson

Did I listen or read?: bought the book at the Copeland warehouse sale

When did I finish?:  10/9/2026 

When was the book published: 2021

Main Characters: Jennifer Doran’s, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Feng Zhang, George Church

What happens? The process of figuring out how to use CRISPR on humans.  The process of how to use CRISPR to quickly develop mRNA vaccines for COVID.  Clustered Regulrarly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats.

How long was this?  481 pages

Did I like this? Good story, real science 

Overall grade:  B+

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