The Code Breaker

Science in general is really not my strong suit, and while this was quite biology- and genetics-heavy, Isaacson writes in a way that I can generally understand. This also had a ton of relevance to our current times, in the way it talked about the development of the Covid vaccines using the mRNA and CRISPR technology, that was quite interesting. It was not entirely a biography of Jennifer Doudna; it included enough of the other scientist players and technologies that they were racing to discover, and their pettiness in trying to get published and filing patents ahead of each other (which, pettiness is entertaining to me in any field), and the ethics of using vs. not using the technology once it was created. The book also has the benefit of reminding me how fast scientific advances happen, which I am prone to forgetting since I don't personally know very many scientists. (Obviously if it's not happening in my own personal sphere, it must not be happening anywhere! /s)