Authors@Wharton Welcomes bestselling author Walter Isaacson in conversation with Professor Adam Grant to discuss The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and The Future of the Human Race.
Event Details:
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
5:30pm – 6:30pm (ET)
Virtual Event – Details sent to registered attendees
Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci, Einstein, 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 improve the human species.
Doudna helped to invent the technology known as CRISPR, a tool we can use to edit our genes and choose the traits of our babies. It has been used in China to create “designer babies” that are immune from the AIDS virus and in the U.S. to cure patients of sickle cell anemia. She was also a pioneer in discovering the structure of RNA, the molecule that powers CRISPR, and also the revolutionary new COVID vaccines that were approved in December.
In The Code Breaker, Walter discusses this new life-science and how children who study digital coding will be joined by those who study the code of life—and all the moral dilemmas this brings.