CHAPTER 1
Four Logics of Power
Biographer Walter Isaacson tells the story of Nobel Prize–winning biochemist Jennifer Doudna’s earliest encounter with the topic of DNA research. She came home from sixth grade to find a paperback left by her father on her bed: The Double Helix, James Watson’s first-person account of the discovery of DNA.1 She thought at first the book was a detective story, and in a sense, it was: “She became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the building blocks of life,” wrote Isaacson.2
Doudna resolved to carry on with similar research, even though her high school guidance counselor told her girls didn’t become scientists. In 2011, she and French microbiologist Emmanuelle Charpentier met ...
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