Title is a bit misleading. It is not a full biography of Jennifer Doudna alone. Rather, it’s a biography of CRISPR technology and a detailed story of how it was discovered from fascinating and complicated collaborations between numerous great scientists. The story of CRISPR is not done yet. For fans of HBO’s The Gilded Age, explore the dark side of the alluring world of America’s 19th century elite in this gripping series of riveting mysteries… Walter Isaacson is a true storyteller, and this book yet another compelling, fast to read, educational, biography. He goes deep into the fascinating and burgeoning world of CRISPR to explain it and its origins. And it's clear that CRISPR is changing the world, and will be something we are all familiar with in the decades to come.

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I've read a lot of the end of the world dystopian novels from on The Beach to The Stand to Lucifer's Hammer, and I can say with all honesty that Breakers can easily stand with any of them. Robertson might not have reinvented the end of the world novel but with his engaging characters, clever ideas and plot twists, and very solid writing chops he's created a very real world that I didn't want to leave -- even though it's a world with awful things happening to it.With a love of catastrophe of most kinds, the start of this book was a winner for me; an epidemic of a mystery strain of flu has killed off 90 percent of the population and those who are left must do what they can to survive this new and dangerous world. The story gives us the perspectives of two of those survivors; Walt, a man who was slightly unhinged even before the virus was implemented, and Raymond - who will do almost anything to provide for himself and his wife. We follow these characters as they deal with the devastating affect the virus has on their lives and the world around them, and how they function after the end of the world as they have known it. Peter does interrupt a crime, but it wasn’t at all what he’d expected. The young gunman appeared to have one target and one mission–but when he escapes, and his victim vanishes before police arrive, it seems there is more to the encounter than meets the eye. Peter’s hunch is proven correct when a powerful associate from his past appears with an interest in the crime, and an irresistible offer: if he and June solve this mystery, Peter’s record will be scrubbed clean. Anyone who spots something suspicious can always report it to our Customer Service team so that our fraud team can investigate. First thing’s first; let me start by defending my average rating of a very decent book. I was utterly engrossed by the initial part of ‘Breakers’ and thrilled that there was a whole series for me to work my way through. Then I hit the middle, the aliens were ushered in and despite the curve-ball to the plot I felt my interest slowly slipping away. Yes, I had been warned about the aliens, so it can certainly be argued that it is my fault that I didn’t enjoy the book overall – I have never classified myself as a huge fan of alien fiction, apart from a few distinctive exceptions. It was the other intriguing aspects of the book which caused me to overlook what turned out to be a major flaw in an otherwise good story.

If I had to say what the number one annoyance was for me, it was the characters. (All of them.) Though they are all different, I didn't care about any of them. That is such a rare experience for me that I'm actually left baffled by it. How did I not connect to even just 1 person? The one I wanted to know more but never got the chance had very little time in this story. Which is maybe why I liked him? There were a lot of things that felt cliched as it related to the characters. Why, oh why is it that some historical fiction writers take absolutely no trouble to write dialogue and description that sounds as if it came from the era they are writing about? Within the first couple of chapters of "Murder at the Breakers" (end of the 19th century), here are a couple phrases that stopped me cold: Raina was just a girl when the plague came. She survived. Her parents didn't. Neither did the world. As civilization fell, she took to the ruins of Los Angeles, eating whatever she could catch.Academia is the source of the basic research that industry applies to make important stuff like vaccines. I found the premise a unique amalgam of the typical apocalyptic books. There's a pandemic that kills off most of civilization. Aliens come to take over. And both are tied together seamlessly in this novel. So much so, that it was totally believable, and I didn't even have to worry with suspending my beliefs. The book finds Peter hiding in plain sight because of the events that took place in THE WILD ONE. So he is somewhat reluctant to intervene as he and his best bud, Lewis, approach the Milwaukee Public Market to meet his significant other for lunch. June Cassidy, who possesses the situational awareness that all of us should have, notices a suspicious character who is carrying a concealed rifle. Peter and Lewis witness a strange encounter between this individual and someone who is vaguely familiar to June. The former gets away, but not before streaming bullets all over the place. No one is injured, but they are determined to get to the bottom of the encounter.