Jennifer Doudna, Nobel-Prize co-winner, co-discoverer of Crispr gene-editing technique; the idea that molecules can be coded or reprogrammed and told what to do. Her work on RNA has huge implications for our biological future.
Walter Isaacson’s The Code Breaker is about her life and the biotech revolution that she’s ushered in.
But with biotech will come bioethics, again. Anyone remember Aldous Huxley’s prophetic Brave New World? Gene editing and inheritable edits can have their negative consequences too, if not monitored. Huxley shows us a future, passive, collective world sans compassion, empathy, beauty, the Arts, spirituality, and greatness.