Bacteria have been fighting off viruses for more than a billion years by effectively storing pieces of attacking viruses’ DNA in their own DNA, transferring some immunity to future generations. Isaacson is an amazing writer (I loved his Steve Jobs bio, and have just received the Da Vinci one…) and it’s pretty clear this is the definitive account on the CRISPR story. I was pretty excited to read this book and it didn’t disappoint. These revolutions arose from the discovery, beginning just over a century ago, of the three fundamental kernels of our existence: the atom, the bit and the gene. The coronavirus plague will hasten our transition to the third great innovation revolution of modern times. Walter Isaacson in A Spur to the Biotech Century Ahead (WSJ oped)
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