When Jennifer Doudna was in the sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her father had left James Watson's book The Double Helix on her bed. She thought it was one of the detective stories she loved so much. When she read it, she discovered that in some way she was right. As she devoured the pages, she was captivated by the intense competition in the search for the code of life. And even though her school counselor said that girls don't become scientists, she decided that she would.

Driven by her passion to understand how nature works, she helped achieve the most significant progress in biology since Watson's discovery of the structure of DNA. Together with her colleagues, she made an invention that would change humanity – CRISPR. A user-friendly tool capable of modifying DNA. CRISPR opened up a wonderful new world of medical miracles but also posed many ethical dilemmas.

The development of CRISPR, with its most recent application being the rapid creation of vaccines for the coronavirus, will accelerate our transition to the next great revolution. The past half-century has been a digital age based on microprocessors, computers, and the internet. Now we are entering a revolution in the life sciences, which raises a series of ethical questions.

Should we use our new powers in "hacking" evolution to make us less vulnerable to viruses? What a wonderful gift that would be! And for the prevention of depression? Should we allow parents, if they have the financial means, to enhance their children's height, muscles, or intelligence?

After helping to invent CRISPR, Jennifer Doudna took the lead in addressing these ethical issues and, along with her collaborator Emmanuelle Charpentier, was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2020.

Her story resembles a "thrilling detective novel" (Oprah Daily) that deals with the greatest wonders of nature, from the origins of life to the future of the human species.

A unique book that delves into one of the most groundbreaking biological discoveries of our time.