"The Code Breaker" (Simon & Schuster), the latest book from Walter Isaacson, bestselling biographer of geniuses from Leonardo da Vinci and Benjamin Franklin to Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs, tells ...

The path to Walter Isaacson’s latest book began when he was 16 years old. That was when his father gave him a copy of “The Double Helix,” James Watson’s account of his team’s discovery of the ...

The renowned biographer's new book profiles one of the two women who won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their role in discovering CRISPR gene editing. You may know Walter Isaacson from his ...

As Walter Isaacson worked on his new book, “The Code Breaker,” it took on an increasing ripped-from-the-headlines feel. “While I was reporting the book, a Chinese doctor produced the first designer ...

GeekWire’s Health Tech Podcast goes in-depth with tech innovators bringing new ideas and ingenuity to health and wellness. by Todd Bishop on Mar 9, 2021 at 11:49 am March 13, 2021 at 6:59 am Walter ...

The gene-editing technology is at the center of an ethical debate. Isaacson examines it through the life of Jennifer Doudna, co-recipient of the... In early November 2018, twin girls — Lulu and Nana — ...

Mark Gordon Pictures has snapped up screen rights to Walter Isaacson’s latest book The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing and the Future of the Human Race, about Nobel Prize-winning scientist ...

WALTER ISAACSON: Well, CRISPR is pretty simple. It’s something bacteria have been doing for more than a billion years. And they’re not much smarter than we are. What they do is, when they get attacked ...

Walter Isaacson's latest book chronicles Jennifer Doudna's discovery of CRISPR, a gene-editing tool. The 536-page book hits on themes including curiosity driving science and CRISPR's vast potential.

FINE PRINT Voracious bibliophiles have a funny habit of grazing the fine print — dedication, epigraph and acknowledgments — before tucking into the main course of a book. For many readers, these pages ...

In this week’s episode of the “First Opinion Podcast,” STAT’s Patrick Skerrett talks with journalist, historian, and author Walter Isaacson about his First Opinion, “CRISPR rivals put patents aside to ...