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SUMMARY:Walter Isaacson: The Code Breaker - Jennifer Doudna\, Gene Editing and the Future of the Human Race
DESCRIPTION:The World Affairs Council of Austin is pleased to partner with the World Affairs Council of Greater Houston in hosting David Rubenstein in a discussion with Walter Isaacson on his new book\, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna\, Gene Editing and the Future of the Human Race.  The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci 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 have healthier babies. \nWhen Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade\, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled The Double Helix on her bed. She put it aside\, thinking it was one of those detective tales she loved. When she read it on a rainy Saturday\, she discovered she was right\, in a way. As she sped through the pages\, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the code of life. Even though her high school counselor told her girls didn’t become scientists\, she decided she would. \nDriven by a passion to understand how nature works and to turn discoveries into inventions\, she would help to make what the book’s author\, James Watson\, told her was the most important biological advance since his co-discovery of the structure of DNA. She and her collaborators turned a curiosity of nature into an invention that will transform the human race: an easy-to-use tool that can edit DNA. Known as CRISPR\, it opened a brave new world of medical miracles and moral questions. \nThe development of CRISPR and the race to create vaccines for coronavirus will hasten our transition to the next great innovation revolution. The past half-century has been a digital age\, based on the microchip\, computer\, and internet. Now we are entering a life-science revolution. Children who study digital coding will be joined by those who study genetic code. \nShould we use our new evolution-hacking powers to make us less susceptible to viruses? What a wonderful boon that would be! And what about preventing depression? Hmmm…Should we allow parents\, if they can afford it\, to enhance the height or muscles or IQ of their kids? \nAfter helping to discover CRISPR\, Doudna became a leader in wrestling with these moral issues and\, with her collaborator Emmanuelle Charpentier\, won the Nobel Prize in 2020. Her story is a thrilling detective tale that involves the most profound wonders of nature\, from the origins of life to the future of our species. \nABOUT THE SPEAKER \nWalter Isaacson\, a professor of history at Tulane\, has been CEO of the Aspen Institute\, chair of CNN\, and editor of Time. The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci 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 have healthier babies. He is also the author The Innovators;  Einstein: His Life and Universe; Benjamin Franklin: An American Life; and Kissinger: A Biography\, and the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. Visit him at Isaacson.Tulane.edu \nABOUT THE MODERATOR \nDavid M. Rubenstein is a Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of The Carlyle Group\, one of the world’s largest and most successful private investment firms. Mr. Rubenstein co-founded the firm in 1987. Since then\, Carlyle has grown into a firm managing $246 billion from 29 offices around the world. \nMr. Rubenstein is Chairman of the Boards of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Council on Foreign Relations; a Fellow of the Harvard Corporation; a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution; a Trustee of the National Gallery of Art\, the University of Chicago\, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center\, Johns Hopkins Medicine\, the Institute for Advanced Study\, the National Constitution Center\, the Brookings Institution\, and the World Economic Forum; a Director of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and President of the Economic Club of Washington. \n  \nTo redeem your exclusive membership price ticket for this event\, add one “Non-members -3/24” ticket to your cart. After clicking Get Tickets\, click Proceed to Checkout on the following page when ready.  On the Checkout page\, please click on the green box containing the text “Have a coupon? Click here to enter your code”. Enter “houston” in the box and press Apply coupon to see your reflect discounted rate.
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