Those medical treatments show off CRISPR's most jaw-dropping possibilities. Clinical trials are underway to treat some cancers using CRISPR techniques. Scientists have bred more nutritious tomatoes, and created a wheat that doesn't contain gluten. Since Doudna published her paper in 2012, a lot's been going on in the world's CRISPR labs. "And then I realized by the end, I was understating the case." "When I started this book, I thought, 'OK, biotechnology and CRISPR, it's the most amazing thing happening in our time,'" Isaacson said.
His latest, "The Code Breaker" (published by Simon & Schuster, part of ViacomCBS), is about Jennifer Doudna and her work on CRISPR. Walter Isaacson is the author of bestselling books about Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs.
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