You know how writers are sometimes asked whom they would like to have over for a small dinner party? Well, historian, biographer and academic Walter Isaacson, out now with another magnificent tome, ...

When Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, they became only the sixth and seventh women to do so; the first being Marie Curie in 1911. The Nobel ...

Much like a sailboat tacking into a fierce wind, Walter Isaacson’s “biography” of gene-editing pioneer Jennifer Doudna bounces all over the genetic spectrum. He starts “The Code Breaker” like a ...

Mark Gordon Pictures acquired screen rights to “The Code Breaker,” based on Walter Isaacson’s “The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race.” The book was ...