{"product_id":"code-breaker-young-readers-ed","title":"CODE BREAKER YOUNG READERS ED","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Jennifer Doudna was a sixth grader in Hilo, Hawaii, she came home from school one afternoon and found a book on her bed. It was The Double Helix, James Watson's account of how he and Francis Crick had discovered the structure of DNA, the spiral-staircase molecule that carries the genetic instruction code for all forms of life.This book guided Jennifer Doudna to focus her studies not on DNA, but on what seemed to take a backseat in biochemistry: figuring out the structure of RNA, a closely related molecule that enables the genetic instructions coded in DNA to express themselves. Doudna became an expert in determining the shapes and structures of these RNA molecules -an expertise that led her to develop a revolutionary new technique that could edit human genes.Today gene-editing technologies such as CRISPR are already being used to eliminate simple genetic\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SIMON \u0026 SCHUSTER","offers":[{"title":"Book \/ Standard","offer_id":57095107510432,"sku":"025142285","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1036\/7749\/3408\/files\/9781665910668_01.png?v=1779542967","url":"https:\/\/collofthedesert.bkstr.com\/products\/code-breaker-young-readers-ed","provider":"College of the Desert Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}